Amnesia Generation

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  2. Asking politely for a company to stop its despicable behavior is no longer a viable method of obtaining justice.
    A more effective way to obtain positive results has been to threaten painful beheading to all involved, and to give a few demonstrations with some of the senior people involved.
    It seems that is the world we now live in.

  3. First, make a backup copy of everything and then move it to an unknown location in a non-extradition country. Restore the archive on the dark web. Word of mouth will do the rest.

      1. I had a lot of those books back then, but they were cheap paperbacks that gave up their glue. Dell pocketbooks and all that rot.
        However, the gist of each of them abide in my head.
        I also retain a library card, and still can get at a plethora of pearls, for now, at least.
        I sometimes wonder if someone is monitoring my library selections.

    2. I’m not familiar with that one off hand, but better get your copy of Camp of the Saints while you still can.

        1. Project Gutenberg is alive and well, as they only deal with public domain works. The download of the whole kit and kaboodle comes to about 80 gigs. You can put it on a 128 gig SD card and have room left to update every year for a number of years.

  6. The RCMP kept the gun registry after Stephen Harper ordered it deleted. Surely this website can figure it out…

  9. Give your money to Archive dot org direct. Change dot org has too many lefty causes IMO and your donation is going to only send out notifications which sounds like bs. Not sure where my money would end up. Archive dot org has a donate button on top and you can list things you like about them and send them a message too. Use that and let them decide how to spend the money.

  10. So let me understand … when Monsanto began creating Franken-food that threatened the historic, natural seed biology … we created a seed vault to preserve our natural foods.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/08/15/211451380/colorado-seed-vault-is-fort-knox-for-the-worlds-seeds

    But when woke ideology infected the natural, organic, thoughts and writings of mankind … the book vaults got purged of all those “bad seeds”? Sounds like we need a new vault. With new book bankers and security guards

  12. The truth of the matter here is that Archive.org is giving away 500,000 books that they did not pay for and do not have the rights to.

    If you want one of those 500,000 books these guys are talking about, you can go BUY a copy. You know, with money. Or, God forbid, schlep to the library and borrow theirs.

    Speaking as a writer, I am not in favor of -my- books that I wrote being given away for free by Archive.org. If I heard they were doing that I would sue them. I don’t expect to be the next JK Rowling, but I will not work for free.

    Archive.org does the world a disservice. How many millions of books will never be written because their authors will never be paid, thanks to guys giving away their work?

    Don’t believe the hype, my friends.

    2. As A Non-writer, I am in full support of blocking the theft and “free” distribution of the already scanned books, which also includes the project to scan ALL books in print, and distribute those, on demand, in the future. Has little to do with the Archive, used as fig leaf here.

    3. Maybe you’re just a crappy author.
      There are lots of little self-published authors who are doing fine, they do well because people like their work, and I have never once heard them complain that piracy is costing them money.
      When copyrights last 100 years, there’s a problem.
      Perhaps you could put a link up to where your work is being sold?

    4. //, I am not in favor of -my- books that I wrote being given away for free by Archive.org. //
      Are any of them in libraries?

      // the Internet Archive’s Open Library system is indistinguishable from the economics of how a regular library works. The Archive either purchases physical books or has them donated (just like a physical library). It then lends them out on a one-to-one basis (leaving aside a brief moment where it took down that barrier when basically all libraries were shut down due to pandemic lockdowns), such that when someone “borrows” a digital copy of a book, no one else can borrow that same copy. And yet, for all of the benefits of such a system in enabling more people to be able to access information, without changing the basic economics of how libraries have always worked, the big publishers all sued the Internet Archive. //
      https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/06/20/210202/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library

      1. Libraries -buy- them to lend, genius. Or they are donated -willingly-. If you just copy them and give them away, that’s not a library. That’s theft.

        Commies always have trouble with that concept. Funny.

  14. I own a publishing company. Our books are on Internet Archive. We’ve tried repeatedly to get them removed through their “system,” to no avail. The removal system seems designed to let them say they have such a removal system without necessitating any actual removals of copyrighted materials. Mine is a small company, we can’t afford to be screwed over like this. And that, my friends, is the unintended consequence; Internet Archive isn’t a threat to the biggies of the industry, but they’re pummelling the little guys.

  15. Lots of book burners here.
    Probably think CBS should keep banning Star Trek fan-fic, too.
    Archive.com (and others) will remove anything at the request of the rights holder, as well.

  16. Lastly, fortunately services like these will pop up faster than states can knock them down, but again, it appears many here want the state to exercise greater control over the internet, because they’re fkn retards.
    This is the DOJ. Remember them? Tenet media?
    You would have though that people would have learned since 2020…You would have though wrong.

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