I'm torn about this. I don't want my money going to silly lawsuits, I want it to go towards archiving important cultural goods.
Copyright infringement is exactly what makes it possible to provide me with that collection of Windows 7 UI sounds and similar things, but I don't know about books. There are already people archiving books and providing them to people for free, so I think this is not a role the Internet Archive needs to fill.
Save the money and fight battles that matter more ...
> I'm torn about this. I don't want my money going to silly lawsuits, I want it to go towards archiving important cultural goods.
We live in a world where one corporation can singlehandedly change copyright for the worse for the majority of humanity, where copyright is actively being used and abused, not just for profit maximation but also for the suppression of information.
In such a world lawsuits sadly are a part of enabling to do what IA is trying to do; Set precedents for what doesn't fall under copyright, fighting for interests that are not 100% based on profits.
Copyright infringement is exactly what makes it possible to provide me with that collection of Windows 7 UI sounds and similar things, but I don't know about books. There are already people archiving books and providing them to people for free, so I think this is not a role the Internet Archive needs to fill.
Save the money and fight battles that matter more ...