• Kilgore Trout@feddit.it
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    4 months ago

    Their distribution of books is completely legal.

    Corporations just have more money to warp the laws in their favour.

    That’s why the Archive is appealing: they still believe they are right.

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      4 months ago

      There’s really no credible argument that their distribution of books even might be legal.

      Their only defense is fair use, and there’s no precedent for a “fair use” defense justifying copying a work wholesale for mass distribution. (Yes, “one copy at a time” to multiple people is mass distribution.) Copying a whole work has effectively only qualified as fair use when that copy is not re-distributed, and is actually for a personal backup.

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      4 months ago

      Their distribution of books is completely legal.

      Corporations just have more money to warp the laws in their favour.

      You just contradicted yourself in two sentences.

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          What did I say that implied that? I’m pointing out a contradiction in kilgore’s comment, I’m not adding anything of my own here.