Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
whocares314@lemmy.world 6 months ago[deleted]
Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
whocares314@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 months ago
Unfortunately, that's like saying everyone has the right to read any book that IA usually archives for free at any time. Do I agree with that? Yes. Does it hurt intellectual property? Yes. There's obviously evidence that readers used the service a lot. I agree with the principle, but they should've just temporarily "merged" with public libraries and increased borrowing limits for books in stock, not allow everyone in the United States to just get a book as long as they have less than 9 other books as well.