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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by zucker42 on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:11PM (#23383862)
> The books are still restricted by DRM

I don't think this is true for many books, which are scanned copies and available as PDFs or EPubs.

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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by zozbot234 on Monday June 01, 2020 @05:43PM (#23384294)
It's definitely true of copyrighted books in the NEL. You're not getting actual PDF's or ePub's, only DRM-based versions are made available.
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