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Internet Archive's digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications (theconversation.com)
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The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

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[–] Ret2libsanity@infosec.pub 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah internet archive is fucking stupid for this.

And they sold access to the books they stole via a subscription? I mean… yeah. That’s gonna get you sued

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Where was it mentioned that they sold a subscription to access to copyrighted materials? They sold a subscription to their web archiving service.