The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

  • rgb3x3@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Piracy dies (mostly) with easy and reasonably priced ways to pay for content. Most people don’t want to do something illegal and want to support those who make content.

    But when publishers like Warner Brothers are removing content from services making pirating sites the only place to find artists’ work, then little are going to pirate.

    Without sites like the Internet Archive, so much stuff would risk being lost forever because of greedy copyright practices.

    • xuxebiko@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      IA helps keep democracy alive. Documentaries that are banned by dictators, like the BBC documentary on Modi that was banned in India by Modi, would be unavailable to people without IA.