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Peter Bronez

@realn2s @eishiya Honestly I’m pretty annoyed with the Internet Archive about this.

The Internet Archive is too important to expose it to avoidable problems like this. Lending books is outside their core value, and these legal problems drag down the whole organization.

5 September at 12:08 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io
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Peter Bronez

@realn2s @eishiya there’s a robust discussion on HN, which includes the perspective that what I consider the existing value of the Internet Archive came from fighting similar battles years ago:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

I don’t have enough evidence to reject that.

5 September at 12:34 | Open on hachyderm.io
Peter Bronez

@realn2s @eishiya

All I know is this:

1) the marginal cost of reproducing digital information products (books, movies software) is practically zero

2) the fixed costs of producing them, with quality, remains high.

3) we don’t have good systems for rewarding high-quality production in this regime.

For more on this, read Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier.

5 September at 12:34 | Open on hachyderm.io
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