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Fight for the Future

Big pubs: Ban 500,000+ books from
@internetarchive !

Also Big pubs: Sue Florida for banning way fewer books than we literally just did!

21 October at 17:53 | Open on mastodon.fightforthefuture.org
Fight for the Future

"Digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history."

Read the full story: wired.trib.al/AM9FF6B
4 October at 16:31 | Open on mastodon.fightforthefuture.org
Zergling_man
boiert

@fight Not just saying something but, a lot of Wikipedia source references would become invalid.

7 October at 18:30 | Open on mastodon.xyz
9x0rg

@fight

> Several major record labels, including Universal Music Group, Sony, and Capitol, sued the Internet Archive over its Great 78 Project, a digital archive of a niche collection of recordings of albums in the obsolete record format known as 78s, which was used from the 1890s to the late 1950s. The complaint alleges that the project “undermines the value of music.”

8 October at 5:21 | Open on mamot.fr
Fight for the Future

“It’s the time of Orwell but with corporations." wired.com/story/internet-archi

This is a must-read on the existential battle of @internetarchive

If you wanna take action after, we've got a list of things to do at battleforlibraries.com/
27 September at 17:46 | Open on mastodon.fightforthefuture.org
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RS, Author, Novelist

@fight @internetarchive

As an author I may be biased. I was not happy when I found the Internet Archive posted a digital version of my book, which never had a digital version to provide me royalties. They scraped somebody's pirate digital copy off a website or unprotected ftp site. I am preparing to publish a modernized edition commercially, which makes it somewhat problematic there was a free version.

Libraries need to buy the books they loan, and this instance proves the Internet Archive didn't do that. They did not have a physical copy of my book. How often does this thing happen? Excuse their oversight by citing budgets if you like, but the default wasn't "don't loan" but let the copyright owner (in this case the poor author) request a takedown. Asking forgiveness instead of permission leaves a bad taste in your mouth when you are the little guy. FYI: Copyrights revert to the author X years after the corporation the licensed it.

By definition, the Internet Archive scrapes freely available (unguarded) copies of everything. It's what they do. Regular libraries do not do this.

I suspect the truth lies between great idea and careless execution. I admit they quickly removed access to the book, and I gave them credit when I reported this on Mastodon.

I acknowledge that the Internet Archive is an important service. I don't want to see it gone. But to the extent the solution comes out of the hide of authors, almost all of whom are struggling authors, leaves me ambivalent and discontent.

#internetarchive #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon

@fight @internetarchive

As an author I may be biased. I was not happy when I found the Internet Archive posted a digital version of my book, which never had a digital version to provide me royalties. They scraped somebody's pirate digital copy off a website or unprotected ftp site. I am preparing to publish a modernized edition commercially, which makes it somewhat problematic there was a free version.

27 September at 19:52 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Nicole Parsons

@fight @internetarchive

If people want a future where they can read what they want, when they want...vote to support Democrats for the Senate.

Republicans want to burn books...
vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/st

nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elec

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m

cbsnews.com/news/ohio-gop-sena

msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/

theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar

vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/ri

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

axios.com/2024/09/24/senate-re
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
vice.com/en/article/this-senat
vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/jd
vanityfair.com/news/2022/02/pe

@fight @internetarchive

If people want a future where they can read what they want, when they want...vote to support Democrats for the Senate.

Republicans want to burn books...
vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/st

nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elec

27 September at 20:46 | Open on mstdn.social
JustRosy

@fight @internetarchive If people haven't downloaded the Adobe CS2 files they paid over $1K for the discs for nearly 20 years ago, by now, I kinda feel like that's on them. At the same time, I do think an official Internet Archive is a necessary thing and should be Internationally legally protected and curated.

28 September at 4:30 | Open on universeodon.com
Fight for the Future

STATEMENT ahead of @internetarchive oral arguments in their appeal for the right to own digital books: "The right to read without fear of being punished for what you read has never been more under threat."
fightforthefuture.org/news/202

27 June at 22:32 | Open on mastodon.fightforthefuture.org
Fight for the Future
Fight for the Future

Tomorrow, @internetarchive will file their reply brief in the suit from major #publishers to end the right of IA and all #libraries to own and preserve #spyware-free digital #books.

Reading what they’re replying to, we’ve gotta ask:

Who is the real “Napster” here?

A thread.

18 April at 18:06 | Open on mastodon.fightforthefuture.org
Fight for the Future

What the Archive’s book library does is scan paper books to make their own digital copies so that they can loan them without letting tech companies and publishing conglomerates spy on readers. fightforthefuture.org/news/202

18 April at 18:07 | Open on mastodon.fightforthefuture.org
Fight for the Future

Congress is trying to push through a swarm of harmful internet bills that would severely impact human rights, expand surveillance, and censor the internet.

Today we’re launching a week of action to show our opposition to legislation like KOSA and EARN IT and demand that Congress focus on passing privacy legislation to actually protect us from big tech companies and data brokers, instead of pushing through misguided legislation before the August recess.

Take action at badinternetbills.com!

Congress is trying to push through a swarm of harmful internet bills that would severely impact human rights, expand surveillance, and censor the internet.

Today we’re launching a week of action to show our opposition to legislation like KOSA and EARN IT and demand that Congress focus on passing privacy legislation to actually protect us from big tech companies and data brokers, instead of pushing through misguided legislation before the August recess.

An orange and red promotional image for our campaign. It reads "July 20-28: Bad Internet Bills Week of Action! Take action at badinternetbills.com"
20 Jul 2023 at 14:38 | Open on mastodon.fightforthefuture.org
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