Subnostr

What is the logic behind having to 'borrow' a book from a digital library, like archive.org for example? It doesn't make any sense that only one person at a time can have access to a digital book, why are they implementing that?

I know that there is some bullshit reason for it, and somewhere at the back of my mind there is that awful story about Aaron Schwartz committing suicide because he was being tried for terrorism or something for taking a fucking book out of the library.

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Adam 1y ago

I asked my wife the same thing since she borrows digital books often. The library is only licensed to lend out X amount of books. 5-10 depending on the title.

Low Information Voter 1y ago

Various megacorps own the copyright of those books, and internet technology threatened to make them poor and sad by ending their power to create artificial scarcity of knowledge.

So the State had to step in, and mandate that libraries need to "repurchase" the licence for the book after a certain number of people have read them.

Archive.org fought them in the courts, and lost hard.

Libgen.rs and sci-hub.se fought them by being on the Dark Web and in Russia, respectively. That's working pretty well!

Deleted Account 1y ago

#AaronS was a prophet over profits

Séimí Mac Síomón 1y ago

Yeah libgen is pretty savage.

Deleted Account 1y ago

So am I. So there is that. 💜🙌

Deleted Account 1y ago

I came here to honor his memory & all he believed in. Admittedly, I accept that I’ll continue to fail daily. But he is why I push so hard for freedom tech…

As a non-technical human… this statement changed me forever: ♾️

“I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.”

— Aaron Swartz

———-

All my life I only wanted to be happy.

*Whilst* this life has given me multiplexes of proofs of how I did make great changes … my heart was never that pure at his age.

Hence … immediate hero. 🫂💜🥰

Accepting I was happy meant it was imperative to fight for others until

My last

Breath

#ForAaron