https://torrentfreak.com/internet-archive-ordered-to-block-books-in-belgium-after-talks-with-publishers-fail/Back in July, the Brussels Business Court issued a sweeping ex parte site-blocking order targeting several "shadow libraries" including >Anna's Archive, Libgen, and Z-Library.Unusually, the order also included the Internet Archive's Open Library, a project operated by the well-known U.S. non-profit organization Internet Archive. The order was granted based on a request from publishers and authors who claimed, among other things, that the operators of the targeted sites were difficult to identify. This also applied to the Internet Archive, which was not heard by the court before the order was issued.Over the past several weeks, Internet Archive attempted to reach an agreement with the publishers, but the effort was unsuccessful. It is clear, however, that the Internet Archive believes that its use of copyrighted books for the Open Library qualifies as fair use. The organization is known to purchase physical copies, which it then digitizes to lend out to patrons, one copy at a time. This self-digitizing project was previously contested in a U.S. federal court, where the publishers ultimately came out as the winner. They argued that the Internet Archive project competed with their own licensing business for book lending.In a follow-up decision the government department explicitly states that it can't rule on U.S. fair use or the Belgian equivalent, but concludes that self-blocking measures are warranted. The Internet Archive hosts the contested books and has the ability to render them inaccessible. If it refuses to do so, it may be considered a copyright infringer under local law. In addition to making the books unavailable, Internet Archive must also prevent these works from being made available for digital lending in the future, in Belgium.
>>518443523This is the first i've heard about this.Let me make some calls, this isn't happening.
>>518443523I need to buy 500TB worth of HDDs to mirror Anna's Archive
>>518444036I'll never understand why faggots like you pretend to be important on the internet. How sad and pathetic your life must be.
>>518444169is it that big?they are just PDF files
>>518444317Can you shut the fuck up he's on the phone
>>518444504Tell'em Anon. Some people can be so rude.
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>>518444036Special forces assemble!
>>518444419pdf files used to be bigger now you can shrink them
on a similar note, internet archive doesn't load in the uk but it works fine as a fiddle on tor
>>518444822top kekit's better with the retard flute music though
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