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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So OpenAI is next to stop using those too?

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I'm no computer scientist, but I have a suggestion:

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago

Sign the petition! Not sure if it is going to make any difference, but it just takes a couple of minutes. https://www.change.org/p/let-readers-read-an-open-letter-to-the-publishers-in-hachette-v-internet-archive

[–] [email protected] 112 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are a lot of books that are out of print, especially reference books. And if you look for them on Amazon or eBay, they've been snapped up by scalpers who are reselling them for obscene profit.

Either make the books available for sale or quit complaining about "copyright infringement." But whatever you do, quit hoarding knowledge like a dragon sitting on a pile of gold.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Exactly. Copyright should be nullified if there's no longer first party sales.

We should also go back to the original copyright duration: 14 years with an optional, one-time extension for an additional 14 years.

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[–] [email protected] 175 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know, this thread really needs a list of of the publishers responsible for this travesty.

"Publishers Hachette Book Group Inc, HarperCollins Publishers LLC, John Wiley & Sons Inc and Penguin Random House LLC" - According to Reuters

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The internet archive plans to appeal the ruling, so the fight is hardly over at this juncture.

Would be interesting to see where it goes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

This means there is still time for data hoarders to react?

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We live in a system that actively prevents humans to get more knowledge, go figure.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We live in a system that monetizes everything, then seeks to restrict access to those things in order to profit.

Knowledge is just one casualty.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Scarcity is money and if there is no scarcity laws will be bought to to artificially create said scarcity.

[–] [email protected] 213 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Yeah, kinda funny how it's OK when there's a bunch of neoliberal gangsters like larry summers behind it, right?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wish the cost of internet access decreased to match decreased available content. Internet shrinkinflation?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

What you need is the innernette

https://youtu.be/Y5BZkaWZAAA

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

With pacbell's interwebs, you get 30 email addresses, and a free subscription to Yahoo's front page!!! Hurry!

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