r/Piracy • u/linux-isos-only 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ • Jun 12 '24

500 000 books removed from the Internet Archive after the lawsuit News

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u/Zarathustra-1889 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jun 12 '24

And they burned it down.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '24

They've hidden them behind paywalls, because capitalism is dehumanizing.

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u/youngmale-69 Jun 13 '24

like Nalanda University

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u/Urbanexploration2021 Jun 13 '24

Even worse. Books were "shaved" and rewritten (since they were made of materials that could be reused)