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		hamdingers 35 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its ... How many artists will be fed, clothed, and housed by the 500,000 digital files IA is no longer hosting? Unrelated: I wonder how much the publishing industry spent on lawyers.

reedciccio 35 days ago [–]

Same as today? Empirically demonstrated: The only ones getting richer and richer after the Napster wars are the publishers, like Apple Music, Spotify and the other mega corporations. :)

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