What's fascinating about the copyright stans who backing the lawsuit against Internet Archive, is how many of them are living in the fantasy world that they, too, will one day make a killing publishing with the Big Five. 1/8

The lawsuit is led by the largest publishers, the people with the least to lose. Why? Because free books and widely accessible ebook loans hurt profits. 2/8

If anyone is "killing the arts" it's not book pirates or Internet Archive or local libraries who want to not have to access ebooks via a Netflix-like subscription model.

It's...you guessed it! The big publishers! 3/8

They put all of their eggs into a few small baskets, drop authors who don' t sell well, focus their efforts on making mega-bestsellers by virtually ensuring their critical success flooding the market with ARCs and advertisements, and so on. We're talking about capitalism. 4/8

Capitalism is killing the arts—but, they aren't actually dying. Copyright is important ONLY insofar as individual authors' rights are under attack, but what's really being questioned by Internet Archive and this lawsuit is copyright's status as a backer of corporate profit. 5/8

My guess is that the number of people who download and read an ebook from Internet Archive (setting aside pirates) is equal at a per-book level to the number of ARCs sent out or egalleys downloaded, for a major marketing campaign, and that did not result in a book review. 6/8

Internet Archive =/= your enemy. The fantasy of "making it" is the enemy. Internet Archive does not target indie presses, responds quickly to requests to remove items, and has much smaller numbers of books available than, say, any given Russian free PDF website or the NYPL. 7/8

I'm not going to be convinced by "copyright advocates" that Internet Archive is evil. That's the wrong way to go about advocating for artists, it's the right way to support the ridiculous profits of art-killing publishers, and it's a weird way to advocate for yourself. 8/8

Seriously, is it 2001 again? Are we really doing the whole "the Internet is killing artistic freedom" again? No, the massive corporations want you to look to a false enemy so they can keep pocketing. Wake the hell up. 9/8