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The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.

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[–] stevehobbes 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do frequently. If you’re going to be so smug, you should also be correct. They purchase a copy of each media that they loan at any single time.

If they have 5 copies of digital media, 5 people can use them simultaneously. Not more.

It’s why Libby has a waiting list.

The internet archive would have been legal if they had a) purchased the copy and b) had not lent it to more than a single person simultaneously (or purchased more copies). They weren’t doing that. They were acquiring (legally or not, I’m not sure) copies and putting on their website for as many people as wanted to read them.

That is not what libraries do.

It’s why libraries don’t photocopy infinite books so there’s never a waiting list. You can’t do it with print media, and you can’t do it with digital media.