Comment by bawolff
1 year ago
> The thing is, ISBNs map to: > - publisher - assigned title - (roughly) order of publication
I assume the task isn't just to visualize isbns literally. Presumably you are allowed to cross reference with other data.
> The elephant in the room of course is the matter that "Anna's Archive" is not a legitimate book repository, but a piracy site,
I think its pretty clear that the target audience doesn't care. I don't think the target audience holding differing political views is really a valid critcism of the project. It should be evaluated in the context and audience it was created for.
This is not a political stance, but one of basic questions of authorship and what compensation authors should receive and what control they should have over their work.
See arguments by Alexander Pope in Pope _V._ Curll.
when China decided to wholesale ignore Western copyright in the digital age, completely.. the equation changed IMHO.
Yes, but dealing with that politically would be made easier by having the moral high ground.
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> This is not a political stance, but one of basic questions of authorship and what compensation authors should receive and what control they should have over their work.
Questions of compensation and ownership are one of the most political questions of all.
What exactly do you think communist revolutions were revolting over?
How to employ and feed and compensate the masses.