File:Bad Voltage 3x02 (IA bad-voltage-3x-02).mp3

Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which apparently it is Coventry’s turn in the barrel, and:

• [00:02:07] And Now This: Tourists in Rishikesh, India ignored quarantine to go wandering and were <a href="https://www.news18.com/news/india/foreigners-punished-to-write-i-am-sorry-500-times-for-strolling-in-rishikesh-despite-lockdown-2574001.html">made to write “I did not follow the lockdown, I am sorry” 500 times on sheets of paper</a>, Taiwanese baseball team the Rakuten Monkeys <a href="https://www.12up.com/posts/taiwanese-baseball-team-dressed-up-robots-instead-of-fans-when-season-begins-this-weekend-01e5acp3qwjz">will have dressed-up robot mannequins in the stands to watch them play instead of crowds</a>, people in the UK are <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52164358">burning down 5g masts because they think they cause coronavirus</a>, and Stanford have made <a href="https://www.badvoltage.org/2020/04/17/3x02/">a toilet that identifies you based on your “analprint”</a>…
• [00:09:15] News: <a href="https://thenextweb.com/politics/2020/04/08/trump-calls-dibs-on-outer-space-with-his-latest-executive-order/">the US restates that they’re not party to the Moon Treaty from 1979 which declares that no country owns space</a> and “the United States does not view space as a global commons”, Apple and Google collaborate on <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/15/21222161/apple-google-bluetooth-contact-tracing-system-coronavirus-health">a COVID-19 contact tracing system</a> based on <a href="https://ncase.me/contact-tracing/">the DP3T protocol explained in comic form</a>, and you can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/facebook-friendships-can-help-predict-covid-19-spread-study-finds">measure connectedness of geographic areas based on Facebook</a> and use it to predict the spread of the virus…
• [00:20:44] Main discussion: the Internet Archive have recently

initiated what they call the “national emergency library” and what a whole bunch of authors call “taking our books and letting people read them for free so we don’t get paid” (<a href="https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds-why-we-released-the-national-emergency-library/">the IA’s side</a> and <a href="http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2020/03/31/my-statement-to-npr-on-the-internet-archives-emergency-library/">an author’s side</a>).

Listeners with long memories will have seen this play out before in the
Napster days, and maybe more recently with Sci-Hub and Open Access 

scientific papers as well. Where do you draw the line between access and

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