✍️ Open letter on http://change.org ➡️ https://change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive
It isn't about books (though their case where they lent out more books than they physically had during covid didn't help), it's about stuff like copyrighted movies, ROM packs including every rom for entire consoles, copyrighted music, and the like. They try to go "but we're a library", but libraries have to follow rules too.
Libraries end up following certain rules, and perhaps internet archive thought they could get away with it because they saw Google getting away with it on YouTube, but as much as people complain about dmca takedowns or ContentID, they're the reason that site can host so much -- the content owners consent and get paid. Something like a file with every Wii game ever made isn't going to even be licensable like that -- dozens of publishers would need consent to give up content that's incredibly new. On YouTube, such a file would be immediately taken down just as full length movies are often taken down.
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@Dan_Ramos I remember getting records from the library because they had a very deep collection of 1930s to 1970s jazz and classical that wasn’t available anywhere at any price.
If they force archive.org to delete the music it will be the same as deleting the history of music. Because it’s already hard to find decent old recordings online
@ReadyKilowatt @Dan_Ramos How a music "owner" doesn't understand "publishing" a song on the Internet provides other users of the Internet the owner's permission for use is beyond me. Perhaps a judge will see this for what it is -- a shakedown.
Dave with video games that will be lost to time and obscurity, or even to changes. An intact original version of a classic should be kept intact to experience again despite whatever new "improvements" are made, or in case the "owners" disappear and it can never be released again.