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The summary judgement against you should've been a signal to stop. Future generations are relying on you to look after the Wayback Machine and out-of-print magazine archives, but doubling down on an unwinnable fight to violate book copyright risks sacrificing everything. Please, be responsible.
Well, I'd be more sympathetic if someone hadn't uploaded free copies to your site of my first 3 books that I obtained copyright for when they went out of print. So you're now hosting them illegally. Ahem.
*fires up VM Fires up VPN* sails the high seas for removed books uwu
As with the music industry, IP rights is used as a coddle stifling availability. Media may get lost this way, and culture is definitely being robbed of sources. It's capitalism stripping culture down for parts.
But only 1300 out of 500,000 were banned / challenged? That’s only .26% - that’s pretty good?
How about paying authors a fair price for the books you lend
You scanned and uploaded books that were in copyright, many in print, without paying for ebook rights. Making your users in countries where rights were not sold, print or ebook, carry water for you is meretricious. Authors deserve to be paid for their work.
Fucking hate the government and courts for this.
Will do! I read banned books