Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
by kleiba on Monday August 18, 2025 @03:13PM
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The OP is referring to the ongoing legal struggles the IA is facing wrt. to their version of an online library (with digital book lending).
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Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
by justin66 on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:15PM
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Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
by Nemo_bis on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:33PM
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I believe this was already brought up in the court proceedings, and Brewster Kahle already addressed it in April 2024: «Trying to blow protections we have put on files, for instance, does not help us– and usually hurts».
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1bswhdj/commen...
Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
by account42 on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:31AM
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IA lending books with "weak" DRM also hurts efforts in reducing DRM and reforming copyright though and that is much more important in the long term. It was always a deal with the devil that IA should have never made and them now being at odds with others that preserve those books and actually make them available only makes that more clear.
It's like a food kitchen under a tyrannical regime complaining that people passing their food to rebels might get them shut down.