Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 3 months agoMaybe the fact you have to be there and read it while connected is the secret sauce to prove that it’s a “real” library, meaning they have a fixed number of copies (max players connected to the server at any given time) and that helps them get protected the same way a real library is?
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Doubt thats the point. I mean, real libraries at this point also lend out e-books, and i dont think they have an upper limit. Probably more to do that libraries (or the cities that finance them) have deals with publishers, and IA doesnt.
whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
YMMV, but my local library system has a limit on the number of e-books that can be checked out at a time. Some e-books they only have 1 or 2 “copies” of, other they have 20+ “copies”. Seems dumb to me that there’s a limit, but I’m sure they’re forced to do it for a reason.
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Ugh. Oh well, cant have nice things i guess