Yah that makes much more sense!
I'm not super sympathetic to the "information wants to be free" vision of early Internet people when it's humans creating the access to the information through research and thinking, humans whose time and labor should be valued and who are compensated by book and subscription sales.
And also, the UC system maintains a huge warehouse of books off site that researchers can search for in their catalog and request access to, which is often done through scanning and PDF creation these days. It's not FREE, but it's not impossible to get these books and magazines.
I love the wayback machine, but that's not what's in danger here. the servers are not expensive to maintain, they've already got that hardware in place. Scraping the Internet is done through bots. The big cost they have is about acquiring new things and the labor of creating searchable metadata.
I think this is hyperbole though. The suit is not about stuff that's out of print, it's about their decision to create unlimited access to books still in copyright and available via normal marketplace avenues. I don't have insight into Brewster's finances, but he's a web 1.0 winner so....
Alright everyone, it's time for the return of the #StreetCreaturesQuiz!! Your job is to figure out what urban wild organism connects these 4 things. Mouse Twin Peaks Oregon Archibald Menzies I will reveal the answer today at 3pm PDT. Keep the answer to yourself if you figure it out!
Love this celebration of The Rainbow Sign, the center for Black Arts in Berkeley www.kqed.org/news/1190109...
In its six short years of existence, the center hosted the likes of Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou and Shirley Chisholm — and profoundly affected a young girl from Berkeley named Kamala Harr...
NHTSA’s new proposal isn’t a car bloat panacea (i.e. it doesn’t address torso impacts or cyclist crashes). But by *forcing* automakers to mitigate ped impacts, it’s a huge step forward. NHTSA is finally acknowledging that people outside of cars matter, too. www.fastcompany.com/91195993/car...
Sunday night 8/18--At Headlands, a showing of EARTH SEED. Channeling Butler and led by People’s Kitchen Collective, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California to people and places building models for survival and our collective future. www.headlands.org/event/headla...
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