The Internet Archive is asking for help to defend against lawsuits:

A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture.

The Internet Archive is a unique force for good. Sad that they have to waste any time on this.

dave

I will never, ever get over how companies that only exist because of art do the absolute most to destroy the legacy of art, and of artists. Hell is too good a place for the people bringing that lawsuit.

Timo Tijhof

@manton

This is so petty, especially against the backdrop of Facebook literally torrenting and seeding books still in print and for sale.

I wonder if they can make the case that there aren't any lost sales here.

Manton Reece @manton
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