• 1984@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    The internet archive is becoming one of the most valuable sites on the web, specially to avoid paywalled corpo pages.

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      11 months ago

      And people are abusing the fuck out of it by uploading tons of copyrighted movies. No one seems to be policing it either. I’m very worried that its days are numbered.

      • uis@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Imagine how many copyrighted books are in IRL libraries. Now imagine that IRL libraries can copy any book in any amount. Congrats, now you imagined what libraries in Europe can do.

        • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 months ago

          Uhh what? I’m pretty sure libraries in Europe can’t do that. Do you mean they can photocopy any book they own…?

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            11 months ago

            Not sure how exactly it worked, but some time ago in Russia it was completely legal for library to copy book, but it seems now laws became more strict. Probably some member of United Russia got a shiny new yacht.

            • Aux@lemmy.world
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              11 months ago

              That might be legal in Russia, but not in EU or elsewhere in Western Europe. My partner works in a library in UK and copyright stuff is a big problem.