Finally, Internet Archive seems to have got the message that it can’t fight every fight. It’s carrying a precious cargo of saved cultural data, it shouldn’t be risking that by picking David-and-Goliath matches with giant publishers.
The DMCA is dumb and DRM is dumber, and I support every effort to destroy it. But the Internet Archive needs to play realpolitik here and I’m fine with it making these token efforts in an attempt to dig itself out of its own dumb hole.
Finally, Internet Archive seems to have got the message that it can’t fight every fight. It’s carrying a precious cargo of saved cultural data, it shouldn’t be risking that by picking David-and-Goliath matches with giant publishers.
The DMCA is dumb and DRM is dumber, and I support every effort to destroy it. But the Internet Archive needs to play realpolitik here and I’m fine with it making these token efforts in an attempt to dig itself out of its own dumb hole.