Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet Archive

Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:03PM (#23392526)

> I still don't understand why they thought they would get away with it

This smells of a lack of risk management more than bad risk management.

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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by PragmaticPulp on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:07PM (#23392577)

Or maybe they're getting exactly what they wanted.

Maybe they let their political goals eclipse their IA goals, and they thought that tying this lawsuit to the life or death of the IA would force IA fans to donate?

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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by greyhair on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:14PM (#23395811)

I was thinking the 'attention grabbing' side as well. Maybe their resources and funding were so borked they decided to throw a hail mary and hope for the best.

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Re:Lawsuit over online book lending could bankrupt Internet ... by anigbrowl on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:52PM (#23393144)

Public archives are fundamentally political.

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