“there’s no blood there’s no alibi / ’cause i’ve drawn regret / from the truth of a thousand lies”

[larryhammer]

In honor of the bat found lying on the gravel of our driveway and taken to our local wildlife rehab center (quote Eaglet: “We did a thing!”), a couple unrelated links. Well, one’s about a rescue:

Two words: Duck Amuck (via)

Two more: Bugs version. (via YT sidebar from previous)

Continuing followup: Voyager 1 probe is fully online again yays! (via)

500,000 books removed from the Internet Archive’s lending library after publisher lawsuit. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from What I’ve Done, Linkin Park.

Comments

[movingfinger]

Weird how the butthurt Internet Archive people pretend these books were spontaneously generated, perhaps by AI programs, at the Evil Publishers, instead of being work by authors who have, you know, rights, like ebook rights, that are part of their compensation for writing books people want to read.

This is not the equivalent of removing 500,000 books from the public library. It's the equivalent of removing illegal scans from sharing sites. "Oh, many of them are out of print and no one knows anything about them!" Yet, Project Gutenberg has been scanning OOP works for years thanks to volunteers who have developed expertise in copyright and rightsholder tracing.

If Internet Archive people don't like the fact that authors get paid for writing, that's on them.