Fun fact: if you search for copyrighted material in Google and they show that a link was removed due to a DMCA takedown, you can click on the DMCA link to see the original request, which includes the original URL, which is usually still up.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Fun indeed, comedic even.
Time to Streisand
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Here is the current link. Save it locally before its inevitably removed from gitlab as well: https://gitlab.com/bipinkrish/DeGourou
Its on replit too https://replit.com/@bipinkrish/DeGourou
Not surprising as the internet archive got into trouble and bad press during pandemic because it allowed unlimited ebook landing. They probably can't afford getting sued anymore by the same publishers.
So glad I got this downloaded last month. It's the only way I can archive my amazon book purchases.
Finally, Internet Archive seems to have got the message that it can't fight every fight. It's carrying a precious cargo of saved cultural data, it shouldn't be risking that by picking David-and-Goliath matches with giant publishers.
The DMCA is dumb and DRM is dumber, and I support every effort to destroy it. But the Internet Archive needs to play realpolitik here and I'm fine with it making these token efforts in an attempt to dig itself out of its own dumb hole.