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Post #3214931

2025-07-01 00:16 UTC

@Yuvalne@433.world - The Internet Archive never lent books. They made and distributed an unlimited number of unrestricted copies of each book, with a public URL for a scanned image of each page of each book: https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/

Replies (8)

  • @tauon@possum.city 2025-07-01 01:08

    @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world good

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  • @shadowfals@toot.cat 2025-07-01 01:32

    @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world How does that excuse Facebook?

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  • @nargacutie@dragonchat.org 2025-07-01 02:47

    @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world good. access to knowledge should be free.

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  • @dhobern@scicomm.xyz 2025-07-01 05:30

    @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world Aren't you (and NWU there) describing the IA National Emergency Library (which can certainly be debated) rather than how IA has operated outside a ~3-month period in 2020? Are you suggesting that IA is currently doing this?

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  • @nerpa@nuclear.gelder.land 2025-07-01 08:39

    @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world how does that boot taste

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  • @rhialto@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-07-01 11:57

    @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world that is not true. They had books for which you had to log in to view them at restricted url. Only one person at a time could do that. I know because there was a book I wanted to read and I had to go through this procedure.

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  • @cibersheep@mastodont.cat 2025-07-01 14:06

    @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social not true at all Lending book was indeed limited by a copy at a time, thus the long waiting list on famous books. I would say you never ever tried the feature. You might be talking about the access ti PD books. Making a biased and wrong assuption to defend copyright holders whom have too much power already. @Yuvalne@433.world

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  • @a1ba@suya.place 2025-07-02 15:30

    @ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world is that supposed to be a flaw?

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