Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library Harms Authors

Re:Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library Harms Authors by arpa on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:34AM (#22717821)

Well, thank you authors guild, for pointing me to the great library. 'Tis a shame you are people who would see the great library of alexandria burn in the sake of profit.

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Re:Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library Harms Authors by catalogia on Sunday March 29, 2020 @10:29AM (#22719257)

To show my gratitude to the author's guild, I'd like to point out that Library Genesis exists and is pretty great. Unlike the Internet Archive, they don't bother paying lip service to cretinous publishing industry lawyers; 'lending' is fully unrestricted year round. Up-to-date URLs to mirrors can be found on their wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

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Re:Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library Harms Authors by voiper1 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:06AM (#22718303)

aka Streisand effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect - The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the Internet.

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Re:Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library Harms Authors by coldpie on Sunday March 29, 2020 @11:08AM (#22719594)

Also a good reminder to donate to the Internet Archive if you can. They do amazing work and it is not cheap: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1204428347444547584

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