Ernie SmithThe irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
Archnemysis@ernie ok, but internet archive did not buy the rights to electronically distribute those books, no matter how careful or limited that electronic distribution is. ALL they bought was the paper someone else’s work was printed on. That someone else has a right to determine how their work is distributed.