Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "The Internet Archive Is Losing Its Lawsuit..." video.

  1. Clearly nobody ran this past legal when they were deciding to push the limits so far. There are libraries available throughout the developed world that have ebooks available these days. And if you're not in the developed world, then copyright laws are much less likely to be enforced the way they are in the US. The whole thing was just asking for trouble. And yes, I think it's rather ridiculous that so much is currently under copyright protection, but it is what it is and this type of action just leads to bad outcomes. Even under the best case scenario, all we would get out of it is a favorable precedence, but given the way the courts have been going in the US, that was never going to happen.
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  2. I remember when Amazon deleted 1984 from people's kindles.
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  3.  @MoonieLovegood  They don't, but by the same token, the school library is supposed to have some. The sorts of books that you're probably talking about are by publishers that are pretty protective of their rights. As I've already said, the right way to handle this is to not get the entire project shutdown because the morally right thing to do isn't the legally right thing to do. Getting shutdown over such stupid actions does nobody any good.
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  4. Probably, but there might be a similar drive to have random people just downloading the entirely of the site the way that folks did when Geocities finally shutdown. I'm mostly surprised the site has lasted this long given that it's basically the world's largest pirate site.
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  5.  @arandompasserby7940  No, there is a massive difference between refusing to support the system using legal methods and refusing to support the system that just throws more fuel on the fire. There's also a recognition that there's a lot to be lost if something like the IA gets shut down due to this sort of sloppy activity.
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  6.  @matthewboire6843  But, it doesn't, and that's sort of the point. If we're talking about political activism via such civil disobedience, that's more the sort of thing for a smaller organization that isn't in a position to have that much stuff in the archives that could be wiped out with one court ruling.
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