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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Mike Schnier?!

      Yeah I'm really not a dogmatist on this and I've come to dislike the other side of this debate because I think that's where most of the zealots are My take is basically "If there's an active conflict of interest the person who actually made the thing takes priority"https://twitter.com/MikeSchnier/status/1271887263455154176 …

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      Mike Schnier?! @MikeSchnier
      Replying to @arthur_affect
      FWIW, I think piracy’s usually not great, but also — we’re probably all better off if we don’t clamp down on it too much? There are game cartridges that don’t work anymore and interactive CD-ROMs that won’t play in modern computers, and I wonder how much culture will… vanish?
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      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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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      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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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      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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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      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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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020

      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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    7. Nick Simmonds‏ @Diacritic 13 Jun 2020
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      I have a lot of sympathy for that position but I wish they'd stop lying about it being their position. If you're a free-information zealot just say that, don't pretend you're a "library" that is allowing "emergency lending".

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @Diacritic

      Well, that's a necessary part of the play though The strategy is specifically to *not* say "We, the Internet Archive, are breaking the law" It's to say "We've researched this concept of Controlled Digital Lending that we think is how online library collections should work"

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        1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
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          "And this is a new protocol that libraries across the country are using because it's an expression of fair use" Which it was, because a lot of libraries hate paying for ebook licenses, which is why publishers were getting so upset

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        2. Nick Simmonds‏ @Diacritic 13 Jun 2020
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          I get that, it just means that what they're doing is fundamentally dishonest in ways that I don't think jibe with an information-freedom paradigm. They're trying to score a political win (and they're failing because they're bad at politics) instead of making the argument.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
          Replying to @Diacritic

          I dunno I do in fact see their side of the issue, even though I disagree with it (and kind of kneejerk disagree with it, with a convert's zeal and all that)

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