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Major book publishers continue their legal crusade against Internet Archive's scan-and-lend library, hoping to shut it down for good. IA's appeal previously received support from authors and copyright scholars. The publishers, however, have some heavyweight backers too. New amicus briefs are signed by former U.S. politicians, former judges, and legal scholars. Industry groups such as the MPA and RIAA also rally behind the publishers.
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It's pretty much the same for free public education. If it didn't already exist, it would never be allowed.
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This is the track I followed. First I read this by Cory. https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/22/mesmer-2-point-oh/#thanks-obama
That led to this. https://www.wired.com/story/ad-tech-could-be-the-next-internet-bubble/
And that led me to download the book, Subprime Attention Crisis by Tim Hwang. I also found this unnecessarily large book talk at the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/download/subprime-attention-crisis/subprime-attention-crisis.mp4 I've started listening to this. I'll listen some more later.
I'll get to the book soon.
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TorGuard says it operates VPN servers in 50 countries, so its users can presumably still use BitTorrent by connecting to a non-US server. Though torrenting is widely used for piracy, the peer-to-peer technology is also used for the legal distribution of files such as Linux ISOs and many types of content on the Internet Archive.
#bit-torrent #file-sharing #linux #linux-distros #internet-archive #privacy #surveillance #vpn #torguard
