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This is your occasional reminder that publishers were already preparing their lawsuit against the Internet Archive in 2019, before the pandemic, and before the archive relaxed their lending restrictions.
The Internet Archive is a target merely for existing. The nature of the IA is to be a challenge to the ownership of information as capital. There is nothing they could do to mollify publishers.
@jenniferplusplus this is true of all libraries- they wait for us to fuck up (or just find a clever excuse) and chip away at the precarious rights that let libraries exist at all through the courts
Fascists want to destroy information.
And replace it with their own disinformation.
@jenniferplusplus maybe they should rename themselves to "Archived Internet (AI)" so they'll get funding instead of lawsuits
@jenniferplusplus The Internet Archive needs to rebrand themselves as a LLM AI, have someone copyright holders sue them, and then have OpenAI step forward and defend them.
And after that they'll prepare lawsuits against libraries
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Gee, wonder who's behind the DDOS attack? 
@jenniferplusplus ah! They got their abbreviation mixed up! Should've named it "Archive Internet", because if you're AI, you're untouchable!
@jenniferplusplus @kathrinpassig Reminds me of Star Trek: Discovery (episode 508 “Labyrinths”), when the crew rushes to defend the Eternal Galactic Archive against a vicious attack https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3rPrY8ds7cg
@jenniferplusplus They could simply have not committed copyright infringement. That is a pretty simple thing to do. Watch, I'll do it: done.
Their argument for fair use was much higher before they made a supremely stupid decision, but it was still a high bar to clear, as is the nature of a fair use defense.
@kithrup @jenniferplusplus How would the service have been possible without infringing copyright?
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Well said. It's almost like our copyright system is broken and stifles the very innovation it was meant to protect, and the attacks on IA are just bog-standard rentier behaviour.