I get a bit of a Zhou Enlai "it is to early to say" vibe on this (btw he was actually responding to a different question probably and not the 'what do you think about the french revolution' question but anyway)
The sense of it for me is that the fight is really important and I'm glad they are having the fight, sad-but-glad. But, I suspect they are going to be celebrated for a victory MANY YEARS YET TO COME and in the meantime take heinous pain on this one, and functionally lose the battle and the war maybe.
Sometimes, the ones who lose the war have history on their side. Germany won in 1871. The reparations they screwed out of france cause massive economic pain when they ran through the economy, and at root laid the seeds of WWI. Did Germany really "win" ?
Publishers have the shitty IPR laws on their side. They will probably win. But in destroying the Internet Archive, (god forbid) they will cause us, consumers to visit the "you don't really miss what you've got 'till its gone" and question the whole deal over Kindle IPR, the book to rent, the disappearing books, the books never uplifted, the geo-locked books...
The sense of it for me is that the fight is really important and I'm glad they are having the fight, sad-but-glad. But, I suspect they are going to be celebrated for a victory MANY YEARS YET TO COME and in the meantime take heinous pain on this one, and functionally lose the battle and the war maybe.
Sometimes, the ones who lose the war have history on their side. Germany won in 1871. The reparations they screwed out of france cause massive economic pain when they ran through the economy, and at root laid the seeds of WWI. Did Germany really "win" ?
Publishers have the shitty IPR laws on their side. They will probably win. But in destroying the Internet Archive, (god forbid) they will cause us, consumers to visit the "you don't really miss what you've got 'till its gone" and question the whole deal over Kindle IPR, the book to rent, the disappearing books, the books never uplifted, the geo-locked books...