Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive still working to democratize knowledge
I'm generally a big fan of the IA, but lately they've gotten lost on one big issue and this could hurt them. They tried to give away digital books still under copyright when the pandemic began. They seemed to think that this was somehow helping people who couldn't get to a physical library, but this was kind of a ruse. First, many bookstores were still open online and they were desparate for orders to stay in business. Second, many libraries were also operating, albeit under COVID rules.<p>When they started this plan, I wrote my friends at the IA and begged them not to go down this route. They answered with lots of rhetoric about how they were some how helping and seemed oblivious to the claims of the authors and the libraries.<p>So I'm not surprised that they're being sued. They went down this path willfully.