BREAKING: A federal judge has decided in favor of four publishers in the long-awaited copyright case Hachette v. Internet Archive. "There is nothing transformative about IA's copying and unauthorized lending of the works in the suit," the judge writes. This story is developing.

Very bad news. The Internet Archive is basically the only organization dedicated to holistically preserving all forms of human knowledge, culture, and history while making it available and accessible for the average person. If they go down the loss will be immeasurable.

Who do you think will benefit if all of that knowledge, art, and history is lost, much of it forever? Certainly not us lowly artists. Regardless of how you felt about their pandemic lending program, we all need to step up to support them. archive.org/donate

I looked away from my phone for five minutes and there are people fighting in my mentions lol. I have so little brain power right now so this thread is just getting muted. ✋ 😤 continue on I guess!

@EveHarmsWrites This is something Congress has to address. And really, a non-profit like the Internet Archive is not the ideal way to do this. It would make more sense to give this power to the Library of Congress, which already has the mandate to preserve all books and most newspapers. Congress…

@EveHarmsWrites Will this have ramifications on what Google does as well?

@EveHarmsWrites @LunarArchivist Is it really that big of a loss? I’ve never heard or used it before and has had 0 impact on my life 🤷‍♂️. Don’t get angry folks. It’s a genuine question.

@EveHarmsWrites @HansMahncke good luck shutting down library genesis, scihub, shadow libraries et al

@EveHarmsWrites If the grid goes down so does the Internet Archive. #HardcopyBooks