The thing being that what the authors are objecting to isn't "leakage" from the system from many small scale actors, it's one very big and powerful actor from the tech sector making a big move to permanently change how the system works
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
It's not "Hey sometimes people steal from you but they aren't totally evil people and you have to accept that it happens" It's "We're changing the rules so a bunch of shit just isn't defined as stealing anymore and you have to live with it because you're already rich enough"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
Which, if you've been paid $2000 for two years of work, and *already* been taunted "Hey look having fans doesn't equal an income, they don't owe you anything", might not go down very easy
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Sure. Question: between struggling families and entitled "fuck you I want shit for free" people, who, would you say, would more likely be able to get free books now that this particular thing was publicised?
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I dunno, probably an even split What studies there are of this show that people on the bottom of the economic ladder still have relatively low adoption of digital media (the "digital divide") and the majority of pirates are the tech savvy middle class
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
If you really try to push this through public channels as an "emergency library" you'll get more adoption from the poor But I'd bet even with this Extremely Online kerfuffle most extremely poor households still don't know what the Internet Archive is
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I would make the same bet. Had the "extremely online kerfuffle" gone in a more... nuanced manner, id also bet that might be different Hence my annoyance. I call that a lost opportunity
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You know the whole point is that because borrowing is no longer throttled it doesn't matter, since an infinite number of borrows can exist there's no way a "never would've bought" borrower can displace a "might've bought if they had to" borrower
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
Anyway it's not that much of a lost opportunity, the anger has obviously made this a much bigger news story than it would've been otherwise
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Has it? It's sure been a loud argument on Twitter, I'll grant you that.
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There have been multiple followup stories in mainstream outlets about the controversy after the initial couple of stories just treating it as a chipper announcement about a cool thing
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Changed any minds d'ya think?
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The NYT and the Guardian weren't trying to change minds, just reporting the controversy
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