Publisher’s Denial of Digital Ownership vs Decentralization
summary
Major publishers argue libraries cannot own ebooks and sue to stop the Internet Archive’s practice of scanning owned paper copies and lending them one reader at a time; the Archive reports 6 million digitized books, over 99 petabytes of data and a growing Wayback collection while publishers withdraw material (Wiley pulls 1,200 textbooks) and platforms remotely remove titles (1984). An authors’ letter now has 850 authors supporting libraries. The Archive is prototyping peer-to-peer solutions (IPFS/Swarm/Filecoin, BookServer) but sustainable decentralized buying and lending is not yet solved.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:48Lawsuits and digital access
- 6:02The Internet Archive's work
- 8:17Risks of licensing content
- 11:43Privacy and control
- 14:52Building a better web
- 18:01Q&A on decentralized systems
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