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Sometimes, but its also how people end up in prison.

Precedent for federal cases is typically first set at the appellate level. If you're working your activism through the courts, you usually have to lose before you can win.

There is a less than zero percent chance this Supreme Court decides in favor of the Internet Archive, if they ever even cared to hear the case.

“This” Supreme Court? As opposed to any other Supreme Court?

Which Supreme Courts have been friendly to fair use and opposed copyright expansionist arguments?

While this was the southern district of new York, the 9th circuit court of appeals ruled on a similar issue with Vidangel on 2016. They would buy DVDs and let people pay to watch a censored version, even going so far as to purchase a physical version for every one that was streamed for censorship, and they claimed fair use. They were ruled against and filed for chapter 11.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._VidAngel#:~:text=J...

I'm sure someone will reply to tell us how it's not really that similar but I thought there were some parallels

And honestly they probably have a better (albeit still terrible) case because it was transformative

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