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Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by zozbot234 on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:41PM (#23385425)
This is only talking about 'unlimited' simultaneous users, and the term "unlimited" should be related to its proper context. It's 'unlimited' in a sense because the former limits have been suspended. Everything else is separate, so I'm not sure why we're being told assume that IA can't do their job properly.
Re:Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive by jasode on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:18AM (#23389202)
>This is only talking about 'unlimited' simultaneous users, and the term "unlimited" should be related to its proper context.

Because the "proper context" in this case is what the publishers are filing the lawsuit about. It doesn't matter whether you agree or disagree with the publishers. To the publishers, unlimited simultaneous users is the same as unlimited copies. With public libraries, they paid for limited simultaneous checkouts of digital ebooks which is limited copies and that was acceptable by publishers. In contrast, IA did not pay publishers a license to make copyrighted works available to unlimited users.

The publishers didn't file lawsuits against public libraries; they filed it against IA. In your own words (since you don't object to the word "unlimited" and you thought my summary was unfair), what exactly did IA do that the publishers are filing lawsuit about?