Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "The Internet Archive's Last Stand" video.

I love the internet Archive, but yeah, there were some questionable aspects about how they got around copyright laws, which apparently they didn't and hoped being not for profit allowed them to go under the radar. This may hit more than their archive, depending on how other archive sites worked out giving out free digitized books, some that can be hard to find, especially if no longer published and out of circulation.
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@SomeGuyInSandy - You do realize it's possible to publish things as public domain, or under various 'copy left' attributions under copyright laws?
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@treelineresearch3387 - It's a great idea in theory, unless you actually have sought to publish a book, music album, or otherwise try to sell digital content. There's a difference between a free market and a freebie market. Most want the freebie market when they want to get something, but as soon as you try to sell something, the freebie market isn't so great. Could they coexist? Sure. But I've only seen it work in a virtual world where noobs and cheap people go after freebies while those that want newer, nore fashionable stuff, tend to actually go buy stuff. Or you get the shopaholic constantly hunting down free or reduced price, bargain bin items. But, irl, there are people that live off the residuals of royalties from their music and book sales. Not a perfect system, especially if in the industry and the industry gets the lion's share of the residuals, but if you worked on something, most people would like to get paid for their work.
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@SomeGuyInSandy - Just saying, there's more to a copyright than just all right reserved. I don't see how that's a buzzkill.
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@benjwgarner - they do not. People also have digital property rights, which is something that we take for granted. That is taken advantage of by our banks, places we shop online and offline, and all social media sites, who make money off of our data given to them. For some, like social media, they are making billions off our personal data.
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