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i have looked for this, and kind find any useful intersection of the terms 'archive.org' and 'DRM'...except for bemoaning its general existence.

you could elaborate?

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Here’s one example of DRM: https://archive.org/details/inlibrary?sort=-publicdate

They have collections they don’t let you download, they should just refuse those collections to force the platform to be free to download like the Gutenberg Project for example.

you have a simple choice: either have those collections be kept and preserved, OR have them disappear forever. We can all be grateful we at least have one non-profit who does give a fuck at all, no for-profit business will ever do any preservation work like it.

Gutenberg is only preserving public domain works, MANY are lost to humanity way before that.

Because it discourages people from creating works then if they can't be free. Why would you want to write something valuable for humanity if in the end someone is going to steal it and put DRM on it? For me personally, I'd not write the work at all knowing that, since it goes against the spirit of making it for humanity to begin with.

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