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Internet Archive Responds to Recording Industry Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete Media (blog.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1463699

Archived version: https://archive.ph/ORbLO
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230815010318/https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While this mode of access is important, usage is tiny—on average, each recording in the collection is only accessed by one researcher per month.

Like come on there is no profit here, it is literally just for the public benefit and so that we can learn from a deeply important era of recording before the recordings literally turn to dust.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yes, but if the public were to benefit from free things too much, they might consume less paid content. Worse, they might realize that realize that non-profit enterprises are a better investment than for-profit ones. We just can’t have that.