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in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.
for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.
so how can you help?
boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.
learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.
get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.
donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.
cannot stress enough that donating to the internet archive to help them appeal this without going broke is the most important thing you can do right now. my day job revolves around fulfilling digital article and book scan requests at an academic library and a huge part of that is borrowing from other libraries that do controlled digital lending (incl. the internet archive!). copyright law is already hugely restrictive on what we can and can't lend, and we absolutely don't have the option to pirate anything for our patrons due to being a large academic institution. it's difficult to overstate just how bad this ruling could end up being for libraries that have digital lending programs, esp ones that rely on CDR for old/archival/hard-to-find texts.
I'm incredibly fucking disappointed at the bootlickers in the comments claiming that the IA steals from small creators. Eliminating a valuable research, academic and cultural resource because you've bought into the fiction that "potential sales" are lost sales is exactly what these big corporations want. You aren't saving small creators by swatting down a non-profit, you're allowing ginormous publishing monopolies to consolidate even further while they smile a snake's smile over independent creators.
The Internet Archive is absolutely vital for my work and research. Without it, a good chunk of Welsh LGBTQ+ history would be inaccessible. The Welsh books hosted on IA are indexed and searchable, meaning any Welsh LGBTQ+ terminology can be searched for. Otherwise, me sitting down to read every. single. Welsh book ever published *just in case* it contains one of the terms in my data is an impossible task (Welsh books have been published since 1546) . In fact, this is something I refer to in my methodology for this very reason.
I'm also broke as hell rn but when I get the chance I'm gonna donate. Without IA, you can kiss goodbye to a *massive* chunk of academia. My lecturers use IA. So not just like, undergrads and PhD students, but seasoned academics will lose access to a major resource if IA stopped existing.
The argument of "potential sales lost" also makes no sense from an author's perspective. Published authors are usually paid an advance before publication. After that point, they would have to sell an obscene amount of books to qualify for extra pay from those sales, so many authors are unbothered by someone reading their book for free. Libraries allow people to read books for free and IA is essentially one giant library. It even has a feature where if you're reading a book and "check it out" for an hour, no-one else can read the book your reading until the time runs out. Just like a normal library. Potential sales lost to the company is just like when companies claim to have lost millions at a start of the year when they haven't actually lost any money at all. They just didn't earn as much money as they were predicting.
IA provides a vital service and we should be fighting to ensure it isn't lost.
Seconding all of the above -- Since the IA lost its case, I've noticed a number of books have rapidly become inaccessible for me. The negative impact this has had on my work can't be understated, as I've been left without a crucial resource for my research. I. don't believe there's a single article I've written that hasn't been impacted by this, with me often having to scrambling to get access to sources that are rare and/or our of print. I have the advantage of a well-stocked uni library that is good at ILLs, but this is a taste of what's going to come if this isn't resolved in the Archive's favor.
If and when Joe Biden loses the election this year, the most annoying thing to come from during the first week will be that white liberals will get on the Internet and blame everybody but the Democratic Party. They will blame Black people and Arab people and leftist and literally every single person, except for the failings of a party that has failed all of us For over a century.
and rest assured, the Democratic Party is SOLELY to blame for any defeat. Am I ungodly frustrated that we can’t rally under Biden to block Trump again? yes. But do I blame leftists for disliking him? fuck no!
But you're making a choice if you refuse to vote for him like
Fucked up and broken as our system is, you have to acknowledge that abstaining is a choice as sure as your vote is. That if you refuse to accept "not good", you will 100% be steamrolled by people who embrace "evil".
There are no consolation prizes, there's no ribbons for morality. There's only the consequences of inaction. People like you and me, with the time and energy to sit on tumblr? We're not paying that price yet, but we will, believe me. After they get done with the people below us? We will.
I am a black American woman. Did you just tell me that I’m not paying the price of Joseph Robinet Biden who has spent the last 50 years of his life actively making the lives of my people in this country worse? That me and my people are not paying the price for white liberals failings? Me? Us? Black people?
In case you lost it - a link to the eSIM donation guide. Even if you feel sick and powerless, you can at least do this. And even if you really, really can't donate, you can always at least share this and remind others.
the lowest tier, which costs 9 dollars, offers a week of connection while the very next, 16 dollars, will provide a full month of contact with the world to someone who desperately needs it. this is not some idle step. an entire month is a huge length of time for people who are displaced, terrified, and isolated.
Yadriel: I want to wake up with you every day for the rest of our lives
Julian: I wake up at 4:30 AM
Yadriel:
Yadriel: I want to see you at some point every day for the rest of our lives
i’m writing a sequel — HAPPY PRIDE! 🥰🌈💖
✨“NYT-bestselling author of CEMETERY BOYS Aiden Thomas’s CEMETERY BOYS 2, the hotly anticipated YA sequel told from Julian’s point-of-view, pitched as The Sixth Sense meets Final Destination when a monster starts creating malingo spirits in East L.A, to Holly West at Feiwel and Friends, in a good deal, in an exclusive submission, for publication in the fall of 2024, by Jennifer March Soloway at Andrea Brown Literary Agency (world).”✨
folks have been asking for a sequel for AGES but i didnt want to write a sequel just for the money.
Cemetery Boys meant to much to so many people, i didnt want to do it unless i had a GREAT story that i thought y'all would LOVE, that would do these characters justice
AND IT’S HAPPENING!
you can add it to your GoodReads here! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61365556-untitled
incredible 🎨 done by Mars Lauderbaugh!
this bad boy wont be coming out until Fall 2024, but if you have an idea for the title, LET ME KNOW! TITLES ARE HARD AND I’M BAD AT THEM LMAO
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