> How is lending a physical copy different from lending a digital copy?

Because the "license" to lend a physical copy is included in a physical copy of the book. The "license" to lend a digital copy of a book is not included in a physical copy of the book and must be purchase separately according to the price I (or my publisher) set.

> Just because the industry decided to consider digital both digital and physical at the same time does not mean it makes sense.

Fundamental rights exist regardless of whether or not they "make sense" in some utilitarian analysis.

> Just like they consider every pirated copy of a digital IP a theft of a full priced physical item while it is just a license violation. You can't have it both ways.

I would agree you can't have it both ways so I consider it a license violation. Just because someone else makes an invalid argument on a different issue doesn't render my argument invalid on this issue.

Well if they are positioning this as a fight between authors and IA, IA is the giant and individual authors are David.

> They aren't distributing digital copies, they are loaning the copy that they have out.

Incorrect. They have no digital copy that they paid to "loan out". They have a physical copy, which they argue entitles them to loan out a digital copy.

> The big issue that you (and the publishers) are missing here is that you think that this is losing you income.

While that is a factor, I don't care if I don't lose income. I care that I'm losing my rights.

Freezes but also fiercely competitive with all the layoffs. A friend of mine works in infosec and ive been trying to help him with finding remote work. These positions are so competitve, most openings at respectable places have thousands of applicants. We've had some friends with FAANG experience review his resume and make a few tweaks, which IMO is solid. I think at this point he's applied to over 40 positions and hasn't been able to get a single interview. Shits rough.

Toto is really the only choice. Would recommend

I doubt any authors have websites the size of IA

I picture Microsoft and Google like two merchants in a bustling marketplace, both generally minding their own business and selling wares from their booths next door to each other.

Over just the last few years, Microsoft quietly steps closer and closer to Google, slipping behind them while they are distracted by their overwhelming crowd of search customers.

Microsoft looks over Google's shoulder with seething envy while they go about their business being the definitive search leader for decades.

As customers, we can all see it. Microsoft tries hard and grows a bit with Bing, but seems destined to 2nd place forevermore. We can see Microsoft looking defeated day after day, because 2nd place just doesn't meet their personal ambitions.

Then suddenly Microsoft grabs a knife called OpenAI and violently stabs Google in front of everyone. It looks like it could be a fatal blow. Google crawls backward into their stall while everyone turns to Bing for ChatGPT access.

We all figure "Hey, maybe Google will heal up and come back out with a comparable offering soon," but they just cough a little blood(a failed chatbot demo) and it starts looking hopeless for them. We are surprised how fast the tables have turned, but Google will probably be OK given time. Right??

That's when we see Microsoft and they keep advancing right into Google's stall, where they are convalescing. Microsoft, still seething with unquenchable envy, and still weilding the knife(OpenAI), proceeds to stab Google again(Dall-E) in cold blood, right in front of everybody.

Could it be outright murder? It's possible imo. Google better hire a LOT of AI/ML talent fast.

once it gets to completely making vr worlds based upon words you choose, bruh we gonna get lazy and crazy! early holodeck dayzzz

I like ebooks; I'm only saying that their introduction has helped publishers more than authors.

I particularly like how you can click on a word and get the definition. I particularly dislike how you pay almost as much as a paper book but it cant be handed on when you're done.

Which smart toilet are you using?

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YouTube has that too

Mr 305 DALL-E.

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> And us readers.

Your punctuation doesn't make sense.

Also, Ebooks are a godsend to me; being able to annotate and shit inside the book is just awesome. Minimal vendor lock-in with a Pocketbook eReader is great too.

Yes, but the specific case against internet archive isn't really alleging damages (from my understanding) but centers around the fact that they are (allegedly) illegally copying and distributing copyrighted material.

I think I’m of the unpopular opinion that it should be going back to the 1:1 or at maximum 1:3 rather than 1:N book downloads. They’re a business, and yes they do have to make money even if they already have a lot.

Limiting the number of downloads would be helpful for the individual authors, they need to make money too or they will have done everything for nothing potentially. If a person really wants a book, try going to the physical library, use Libby or just torrent it. There is also Project Gutenberg on the internet, www.gutenberg.org

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Sure, but the onus is on the accuser to prove the damages.

As far as IP law, I can't even really speak on any of that because I personally have no idea about it.

That definitely won’t work

"Home Taping Is Killing Music"

• 1980s anti-cassette tape slogan by the music industry

"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
-Jack Valenti said this in 1982 in testimony to the House of Representatives on why the VCR should be illegal.

Also see floppy discs, writable CDs, bittorrents and basically anything that made media easier to distribute.

Any time a new way to share media has come along it has made the rights industry more money not less.

The have continued to chip away at the rights of the public and extended copyright from a few years to basically forever.

Greed is killing their industry not lending out more digital copies of books.