Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

A sad day

You know, this thread really needs a list of of the publishers responsible for this travesty.

"Publishers Hachette Book Group Inc, HarperCollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons Inc and Penguin Random House LLC" - According to Reuters

Welp, hope they're backed up somewhere in an uncentralised, segmented, shareable form where people can still access them from the internet.

We live in a system that actively prevents humans to get more knowledge, go figure.

There are a lot of books that are out of print, especially reference books. And if you look for them on Amazon or eBay, they've been snapped up by scalpers who are reselling them for obscene profit.

Either make the books available for sale or quit complaining about "copyright infringement." But whatever you do, quit hoarding knowledge like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold.

I was looking for resources for a custom LLM and noticed they had a ton of copyrighted books and wondered to myself how the heck that was legal

I guess this answers that

I'm no computer scientist, but I have a suggestion:

I hope they remove them like how Apple removed deleted texts.

I wish the cost of internet access decreased to match decreased available content. Internet shrinkinflation?

So OpenAI is next to stop using those too?

Hopefully they have an offline backup in storage somewhere for when the current shitshow ends

If anyone wants my ebook library just let me know.

Time to create some torrents? Let's see them fight with the Netherlands on what's seeding in Europe lol

Sign the petition! Not sure if it is going to make any difference, but it just takes a couple of minutes. https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive

The internet archive plans to appeal the ruling, so the fight is hardly over at this juncture.

Would be interesting to see where it goes.

That's good. The internet is for advertiser's and businesses. Its not for archives of information

Great, another victory of people keeping IP in closed box away from the public at the small cost of culture disappearing.

Don’t worry. It’s all on the way back machine 👀

The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn't win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can't because they'll spend it appealing this stupid thing.

Have a look at ardrive and arweave permaweb.