Internet Archive: The Fight Continues

If they win at the highest level, then at least we'll have clarity that format shifting from analog to digital is legal for library collections.

But the notion of "lending" ebooks seems about as meaningful as "lending" bits. What seems to happen in practice is that ebook bits are encrypted and transmitted to reading devices, and then some sort of onerous DRM system restricts the number of simultaneous readers.

If they lose at the highest level, perhaps it will provide some incentive for copyright law reform.

One of my deepest fantasies is that from a case like this some court rules that using DRM prevents you from claiming copyright protection. I know it will never happen, but let me fantasize, please.

3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297117 (801 comments)

Good luck to them

I've always wanted to have a legit reason to say "¡La Lucha Continua!" -- I'm enough of a techno-anarcho-marxist to be happy the archive isn't completely giving up.