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Re:EFF and heavyweight legal team will defend Internet Archi... by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @01:58PM (#23692842)
I don't think Google is actually warehousing the physical books. They worked with a lot of libraries to scan their collections, but arguably couldn't legally offer CDL.
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Re:EFF and heavyweight legal team will defend Internet Archi... by devit on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @05:25PM (#23694974)
I think they have the capital to buy enough copies of all books in existence to allow effectively unlimited lending of not recently released books.
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