Edward Hasbrouck

@ascentale@sfba.social @pete@masto.hypertelia.com @bikenite@fedigroups.social - A5 - I have an Avatar 2000 LWB USS recumbent in amazing condition except that one of the leather pieces that mounts the seat on the frame has broken. Anyone know a good SF Bay Area leatherworker (or make me a *serious* offer to buy)? Been that way for ~ 2 years. 6 other bikes in riding condition plus 1 rideable but doesn't fit me well. #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite

@Gargron@mastodon.social - Sanction Trump and Hegseth. Seize all Trump Orgnization properties, like Putin;s yachts.

@Yuvalne@433.world - The Internet Archive never lent books. They made and distributed an unlimited number of unrestricted copies of each book, with a public URL for a scanned image of each page of each book: https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/

@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world - WTF? The data sent by the Web server to the client *is* a copy of the file on the server. Another copy for each visitor.

@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world - Libraries can and do buy books and preserve them. The Internet Archive buys books, and could preserve them and make *the copies they buy* available. What they can't legally do (but do) is make and distribute additional unauthorized copies, in effect becoming a publisher and distributor of their own new pirate edition of each book.

@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world - They call themselves a library, but that doesn't make it so. As discussed in the NWU explainer I linked to earlier in this thread, libraries *lend* books. Lending doesn't implicate copyright, because lending doesn't involve making copies. IA makes and distributes (unauthorized) copies. Scanning something and posting it on an unrestricted public web site isn't lending, it's publishing. IA is a pirate Web publisher, not a library.

@shadowfals@toot.cat @Yuvalne@433.world - It doesn't. Both are bad, in some similar and some different ways.

@dhobern@scicomm.xyz @Yuvalne@433.world - Also, IA refusal to allow authors to add links to their catalog to URLs where authorized versions can be found, and insistence on steering visitors only to their (inferior) bootleg copies, disserves both readers and writers. Not sure if it's exactly "bad faith", but it's deliberate (yes, we've asked, and been ignored) and inexcusable

@vwbusguy - Now is not the time for the U.S. to step up preparations for a military draft! Here's what's happening, why it won't work, why it's such a bad idea, and why so many people are opposing it and calling for *repeal* of the Military Selective Service Act: https://hasbrouck.org/draft/automatic/

@rhialto@mastodon.sdf.org @Yuvalne@433.world - Scans of books are distributed by Internet Archive in multiple formats: as ebooks with some restrictions, but also (and more widely used) as unrestricted images of pages with a unique URL for each page. See discussion and detailed walk-through here: https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/

@rhialto@mastodon.sdf.org @Yuvalne@433.world - They dont restrict access to one person at a time. They claim to do so, but actually they put image of each scanned book page on unrestricted web with unique url. See the walkthrough in the NWU explainer I linked to earlier.

@cibersheep@mastodont.cat @Yuvalne@433.world - Scans of books are distributed by Internet Archive in multiple formats: as ebooks with some restrictions, but also (and more widely used) as unrestricted images of pages with a unique URL for each page. See discussion and detailed walk-through here: https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/

@dhobern@scicomm.xyz @Yuvalne@433.world - Yes, they are still doing this. Scans of books are distributed by Internet Archive in multiple formats: as ebooks with some restrictions, but also (and more widely used) as unrestricted images of pages with a unique URL for each page. See discussion and detailed walk-through here: https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/

@dhobern@scicomm.xyz @Yuvalne@433.world - Multiple editions fo my in-copyright books were scanned. Some were taken down after years and many ignored demands, then new copies of same books were again scanned and put back online. I have to keep checking back periodically for yet more newly-scanned copies of my books. Copyright isn't supposed to work that way.

@dhobern@scicomm.xyz @Yuvalne@433.world - As for bad faith, perhaps the clearest evidence of bad faith by IA was its public promise to honor "robots.txt", when those who monitored traffic could tell that they *never* honored it, then claiming they thought people with robots.txt *specifically directed to exclude IA* didn't really mean to exclude IA, then dropping it entirely without notice, only a "by the way" buried mention after the fact.

@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world - I have *authorized* some web server operators to distribute copies of my work. I haven't authorized IA. They haven;t asked. They refuse to even discuss referring visitors wanting my work to an authorized server where they can get an up-to-date legal copy.

@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world - Many writers would also be willing to license rights to non-DRM distribution by libraries. But libraries have refused to talk with writers about licensing. They prefer to get ebooks form publishers of print versions, who in many cases never owned the digital rights, and demand less favorable terms than would the writers who actually hold most backlist digital rights. Don't blaim writers for what former print book publishers' do! We are eager to negotiate directly with libraries.

@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world - When the copies were unauthorized and unpaid-for, and diverted readers from authorized sites which could pay the writer and/or provide better and more up-to-date versions for readers, yes.

@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world - Source and documentation: https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/

@a1ba@suya.place @Yuvalne@433.world -IA's web server creates a new copy for each visitor. That's what a web server does.