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by cloudc0de 2194 days ago
Interesting to see the HN community at large suddenly supporting copyright law status-quo...
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People don't support the copyright status quo, people think it was stupid to risk a vital resource in an unlikely-to-be-won fight. It was delusional and irresponsible.
I do not want everything else the archive preserves (including, full disclosure, reams of pages I scanned myself) to be lost because they decided to pick a fight they couldn't win.
I think most people agree that creators should be paid. It’s the greed of big publishing companies (especially in research) that drive people up a wall with anger.
IA likely also agree that creators should be paid.
And how did they expect them to get paid when they were giving away unlimited copies of the authors books?