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Hhhhuh. Thanks a lot for this info, this isn't anywhere near as bad as all the commentary around the lawsuit I've seen lead me to believe. I'm now confused by the apocalyptic tone of the article, I read it as being an existential threat to the IA ("last-ditch effort to save itself," "things aren't looking good for the Internet's archivist," "A extremely noble, and valuable, endeavor. Which makes the likelihood of this legal defeat all the more unfortunate."). I still don't think Hachette has much to gain here, but you're absolutely right that I was way off the mark.


> I'm now confused by the apocalyptic tone of the article

Be not confused. Lunduke's blog is a sensationalist tech tabloid. Every article is like that -- elevating mundane disagreements in open source projects to huge proportions, without doing nearly enough research to be called journalism.




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