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The answer is not palatable because it will take forever: contact your representatives in the federal government and lobby for copyright reform. IA might be luck they were not sued for more. I believe the MP3.com lawsuit is relevant reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_Recordings,_Inc._v._MP3.co....

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Representative democracy is basically worhtless except for one or two issues that are important to a significant number of people. Not to mention that US copyright and especially enforcement against the internet archive also affects people who are not US citizens and can thus not even pretent that their vote matters here.

Man, that's just a bad precedent. Space shifting should still apply to the internet and digital files.

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