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It's unfair & unethical that a monopoly like Amazon should deny its customers who actually SPENT MONEY on their products the right to do whatever they want with the things they gave money for. As far as I'm concerned, I PAID for my books, I OWN them not some stupid bs "license to read". Amazon is a STORE not a LIBRARY! You don't see stores that sell physical books behave this way when customers come in & buy a book!
J supported: Ensure Transparency and Preserve Digital Ownership Rights for Amazon eBook Consumers
The loss of the internet archive is the loss of public knowledge. Accessibility is something that should always be stressed in terms of the public. With increasing costs across the world, we need more available resources for the public. The internet archive is about preservation of knowledge and resources. To take that away is to harm the public. In a digital age, what better resources do we have than the internet archive? In any age, what better tools do we have than knowledge. Preserving that past allows us opportunity to see and experience things we may never get another opportunity to encounter. Without the internet archive, so many ideas, opportunity, data, passion projects, love, creations, knowledge, wisdom, and so much more will be lost. For anyone to tear that down is to gatekeep beauty from the world for no one's benefit. Without the internet archive, many would not even have discovered or experienced the very things that are claimed to be wrongfully made available. There are many people that upload their own projects, ideas, creations, and more with the notion for it to be out into the world. It's not about profit loss. It's about sharing beauty. The only true loss is taking these resources from the public and hiding them. Most of this material won't be trapped behind a pay wall. It will be lost to the cosmos and forgotten about. The public needs more resources. The public needs easier accessibility to resources. For anyone to be against the idea of that is to be against your fellow man, your brothers and sisters. We will suffer but more importantly, our children will suffer, as will the generations that follow. The folks at the Internet Archive deserve to be praised for their efforts. They are true heros and I thank them for the exposure that they have blessed me with. The site has been a wonderful blessing to me and to many others across the world. Keep the love alive. Keep the ideas alive. Don't take our resources, please. Without knowledge and building a wonderful community, we're left alone and uncertain. Don't let this wonderful site and the things that come with it die. I've gained so much exposure to literature, art, music, and all sort of things I would have never been aware of, if not for this site. People will never know what they are missing if you reject them from an opportunity to learn. Don't let this site die
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge"
-Alfred North Whitehead
Alijah supported: Let Readers Read: An Open Letter to the Publishers in Hachette v. Internet Archive:
It is only right that people be allowed to archive and have access to internet information. Deleting this and setting precedent is like erasing history. This will not allow us to continue to grow and attain higher consciousness about global matters as a species. We need access to information like this. It is our right to be able to post and not have it deleted.
Megan supported: Let Readers Read: An Open Letter to the Publishers in Hachette v. Internet Archive:
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