# "archive.org" did Digital Piracy on Industrial Scale - Publishers

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**Created:** [June 2, 2020, 8:28am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/archive-org-did-digital-piracy-on-industrial-scale-publishers/89552 "2020-06-02T08:28:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 2, 2020, 8:28am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/archive-org-did-digital-piracy-on-industrial-scale-publishers/89552/1 "2020-06-02T08:28:16Z")

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Two Months ago Internet Archive Organization Released a National Emergency Library as a response to Pandemic for remote studies.

> [@National Emergency Library - Internet Archive](https://onehack.st/t/national-emergency-library-internet-archive/75984):
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> [image] [Announcing the National Emergency Library](http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/), a collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed. [National Emergency Library](https://archive.org/nel) Time for Data Hoarders to riseup smiley

Now, **Several of the world’s largest publishers have sued the Internet Archive for its “emergency library” of 1.3 million books, claiming the organization is engaging in “willful digital piracy on an industrial scale.”**

> **[Publishers sue to shut down books-for-all Internet Archive for 'willful...](https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2020/06/01/publishers-sue-to-shut-down-books-for-all-internet-archive-for-willful-digital-piracy-on-an-industrial-scale/286760)**
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> Copyright infringement claim 'not in anyone’s interest' responds org

Here is what you will get when you try to be Jack the Sparrow in front of **Reech** people [https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.1.0.pdf](https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900.1.0.pdf)