The reason the IA ruffled feathers on this is that they departed wildly from what people thought the mission of the library was They did not put a mechanism in place to host only old books or out-of-print books, they started putting up all the books they got
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Because they ARE zealots, or at least Brewster Kahle is a zealot The ethos wasn't the "abandonware" ethos anymore - "We're breaking the law but not hurting anybody" It was openly trying to make new law - "This is how e-lending should generally work"
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The agenda pretty clearly wasn't "Let's make old books that are hard to access available" anymore It was "Let's get rid of the ebook licensing system for books currently in print, because we think it's abusive"
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It's looking at existing authors and publishers going "You've already made enough money from print sales, your prices for ebooks in libraries are too high and they're hurting people, we're just not gonna pay them and tell other people not to either"
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You can hold that position if you want to Personally, I have come around to thinking it's a dickish principle to live by, and *especially* dickish to *actually say it to people's face* Especially when you're not playing Robin Hood with academic research but creative work
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Yeah, I agree that people should be paid for their work — and that people who can pay for the media they consume should pay to sustain it… with reservations about the long-term effects of our copyright laws and access to materials and culture.
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I wish it was feasible to have more of an honour system about this?
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