Post #3214959
2025-07-02 15:40 UTC
@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world sure piracy is bad, but don't you think there should be some entity that preserves books for generations?
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@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social 2025-07-02 15:44
@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world - Libraries can and do buy books and preserve them. The Internet Archive buys books, and could preserve them and make *the copies they buy* available. What they can't legally do (but do) is make and distribute additional unauthorized copies, in effect becoming a publisher and distributor of their own new pirate edition of each book.