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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

During Covid, they lent out multiple copies of the same book when they only had physical access to one copy. It would be like your local library making Xerox copies of their collection and handing them out. There’s no protections for that.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/4/2/21201193/emergency-library-internet-archive-controversy-coronavirus-pandemic