Gregory's ServerThat the Internet Archive lost their lawsuit only serves to prove that we need more projects like Sci-Hub and Library Genesis to bolster the availability that more mainstream libraries cannot provide due to pressure applied by rent-seekers.
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 @gsuberland It's consolidation of knowledge, for those that can afford it. Call it greed, and on a base level I agree, but it's far more insidious than that. @jbaggs I agree that there are probably people who are actively working towards a more separated class system with poor education for the poor, largely in the political sector, but the publishers themselves are largely just motivated by cash. When it comes to the likes of supreme court rulings your theory holds far more true. @jbaggs I guess the line I'd draw is on conscious and intentional subjugation vs. structural effects that are enabled by base greed. |
I wanted to read a technical book the other day. The publisher was charging $130 for an e-book copy. A physical copy was listed at over $200. Both of the authors of the book have been dead for a decade. It's greed, pure and simple.