I guess I should clarify that none of this is to take anything away from the usefulness of the Internet Archive. I don't use it heavily, but I believe it's useful for a ton of things that Google cache is not, and it's operated in the public interest, which Google is not.
I'm struggling to understand why pirating copyrighted works and giving them away for free is different than AI scraping the same works. Both allow the works to be used in violation of copyright and with no compensation for the author. I admit I might be missing some info here.
There are tons of materials that are basically impossible to find anywhere else because it's either eclectic or being squatted on with no intention of being commercially available. A lot of history will go down with that ship if they keep getting railed in court.
Agreed, I was thinking more about books that are not in the public domain, but it's been clarified to me that IA was lending them not giving free downloads.
My cynical side says "because money that could have been earned was left off the table on one hand, and money was earned at the expense of somebody else on the other so the economy's still flowing"
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Thank you.
It will all end up as lost media at some point.
https://authorsguild.org/news/internet-archives-uncontrolled-digital-lending/