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Re:Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threa... by winkeltripel on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:32AM (#23487686)
"Without any license or any payment to authors or publishers, [Internet Archive] scans print books"

That's a lie, unless they are alleging that those print books were stolen, they were bought and paid for. That is how print books work, for the most part?

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Re:Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threa... by s1artibartfast on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:58AM (#23488312)
That is not how digital lending libraries work. You must only lend out the number of copies you own. Similarly, you can’t buy a movie and set up a free streaming site. IA has no legal leg to stand on
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Re:Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threa... by leephillips on Thursday June 11, 2020 @07:53AM (#23487834)
The entire sentence is not a lie, as you know. You extraction of the first part is misleading.
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