<story><title>Digital books wear out faster than physical books</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adalacelove</author><text>I think they put reasonable barriers to piracy. They are of course possible to circumvent, as every other barrier in existence, but you can also scan or make photocopies of a physical book. And this is actually a good thing. Mildly related: the other they I was watching something on Netflix on my phone and found something funny so I tried to take an screenshot to share with my friends, which quite frankly I think is fair use. It didn&amp;#x27;t work because it seems that although I paid for my phone, it&amp;#x27;s not really my phone.</text></item><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>While I cherish the sentiment I very much doubt it&amp;#x27;s shared by all content right holders and copyright lawyers. And it takes only a handful to disagree.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>&amp;gt; The fact the Internet Archive hasn&amp;#x27;t been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.&lt;p&gt;Because it&amp;#x27;s a library. If you happen to be lucky enough to go there and meet the people running it, it&amp;#x27;s very clear they are librarians doing what librarians do.</text></item><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&amp;gt; But I really wonder why is there no other major service like the Internet Archive?&lt;p&gt;Copyright, of course. The fact the Internet Archive hasn&amp;#x27;t been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.</text></item><item><author>armchairhacker</author><text>Physical books wear out in decades to centuries, computers break in years to decades. Also digital formats are constantly evolving and backwards compatibility for old formats is removed. Even without publisher&amp;#x2F;legal issues it&amp;#x27;s clear that preservation of digital media for even the next &lt;i&gt;10 years&lt;/i&gt;, and especially for the next 100 or 1000, is at risk.&lt;p&gt;But I really wonder why is there no other major service like the Internet Archive? The way to preserve media is to distribute it and store it in many places, not just one central location. Does the Internet Archive store redundant copies in many locations? Does it use long-term physical formats?&lt;p&gt;Also, figuring out what information is &amp;quot;meaningful&amp;quot; and which is completely useless or redundant is extremely important. Because we want to store everything with the potential to be important in the future, but we also have an incredible amount of data (hence one of the reasons why IA is the only major archiver). It may be good to strategize data collection, e.g. a shallow list of all sources and a deeper list of popular sources, a sample of various sources from every region, etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blue039</author><text>Scanning and making copies of portions of a book &lt;i&gt;used&lt;/i&gt; to be encouraged. In fact, it&amp;#x27;s how you collected information for book reports and research. It wasn&amp;#x27;t uncommon, for example, for me to print out entire journal articles or scan entire chapters at the University library. Now, they&amp;#x27;d probably shoot my dog.&lt;p&gt;I tried prime video once and the way it locked down my computer to guarantee so-called &amp;quot;rights&amp;quot; was stupid. I tried Netflix, same thing. I&amp;#x27;m slowly but surely trending back to unabashed piracy because it&amp;#x27;s the only way I can own anything anymore - and that&amp;#x27;s sad. I will happily spend hard earned money as long as I can &lt;i&gt;own&lt;/i&gt; something. At the very least I&amp;#x27;d happily donate to my local library if they didn&amp;#x27;t spend time enforcing the will of some faceless multinational publisher.&lt;p&gt;Shockingly, as I&amp;#x27;ve gotten older I seem to own less and every year the apes we elect take more of my rights away.</text></comment>
<story><title>Digital books wear out faster than physical books</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adalacelove</author><text>I think they put reasonable barriers to piracy. They are of course possible to circumvent, as every other barrier in existence, but you can also scan or make photocopies of a physical book. And this is actually a good thing. Mildly related: the other they I was watching something on Netflix on my phone and found something funny so I tried to take an screenshot to share with my friends, which quite frankly I think is fair use. It didn&amp;#x27;t work because it seems that although I paid for my phone, it&amp;#x27;s not really my phone.</text></item><item><author>jstummbillig</author><text>While I cherish the sentiment I very much doubt it&amp;#x27;s shared by all content right holders and copyright lawyers. And it takes only a handful to disagree.</text></item><item><author>gwbas1c</author><text>&amp;gt; The fact the Internet Archive hasn&amp;#x27;t been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.&lt;p&gt;Because it&amp;#x27;s a library. If you happen to be lucky enough to go there and meet the people running it, it&amp;#x27;s very clear they are librarians doing what librarians do.</text></item><item><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&amp;gt; But I really wonder why is there no other major service like the Internet Archive?&lt;p&gt;Copyright, of course. The fact the Internet Archive hasn&amp;#x27;t been sued out of existence yet never ceases to amaze me.</text></item><item><author>armchairhacker</author><text>Physical books wear out in decades to centuries, computers break in years to decades. Also digital formats are constantly evolving and backwards compatibility for old formats is removed. Even without publisher&amp;#x2F;legal issues it&amp;#x27;s clear that preservation of digital media for even the next &lt;i&gt;10 years&lt;/i&gt;, and especially for the next 100 or 1000, is at risk.&lt;p&gt;But I really wonder why is there no other major service like the Internet Archive? The way to preserve media is to distribute it and store it in many places, not just one central location. Does the Internet Archive store redundant copies in many locations? Does it use long-term physical formats?&lt;p&gt;Also, figuring out what information is &amp;quot;meaningful&amp;quot; and which is completely useless or redundant is extremely important. Because we want to store everything with the potential to be important in the future, but we also have an incredible amount of data (hence one of the reasons why IA is the only major archiver). It may be good to strategize data collection, e.g. a shallow list of all sources and a deeper list of popular sources, a sample of various sources from every region, etc</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andrepd</author><text>Those user hostile features are what drive me to piracy. No way I&amp;#x27;ll pay money to have the privilege of installing spyware just so I can stream low-quality video to whatever device the provider deems worthy at that particular moment.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll just go on 1337x and in 2 minutes I have an high quality mkv that I can play anywhere I want. I&amp;#x27;d happily pay 5-10$ a pop for this, and for indie movies I do make the effort of seeing if there&amp;#x27;s a way of paying to watch it somewhere, even if I just pay and don&amp;#x27;t watch it there, and watch the pirated rip anyway.</text></comment>