Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit

Re:Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit by the_af on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:27PM (#24004378)

First, this is a secondary discussion. Mastery? That wasn't the argument. The argument was about whether writing books can exist separate from monetary compensation.

Second, as has been mentioned to you in another comment, mastery is not directly related to having been paid for your art. There are acknowledged poets whose work was published posthumously. They didn't live off it.

(The quote was by Stephen King, by the way. Regardless of what you think about his literary skill, the man sure can speak about writing).

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Re:Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit by goto11 on Friday July 31, 2020 @05:38AM (#24007104)

If you don't care about quality then I guess you are right.

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Re:Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit by the_af on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:54AM (#24008122)

I never said I didn't care about quality, just that the discussion you entered was about whether books would exist without payment and whether only the "insane" would still write. You seem to want to take the argument on a tangent, but please read again the post which sparked this thread. What the original comment asserted was patently false.

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