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Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books (docs.google.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Libraries do not make unlimited copies of books so everyone can check it out at the same time without wait. Obviously the EFF doesn't want to admit its client did that because it destroys their case, but that's what the judge found the IA stupidly did.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Libraries use CDL all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Libraries buy licenses to do so from the publishers, but that's unrelated to what I said.

I'm saying the judge found that IA violated its own CDL, so even if its interpretation of the law was correct, the IA would still be liable.