Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending
by EarlKing on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:48PM
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No, it isn't. They're issuing a copy to the reader for the duration of their checkout. Your argument might hold some weight if they scanned a book, destroyed the book, and then deleted the book from their own servers every time it was lent out... but that's not how CDL works. What they're doing is unambiguously copying.
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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending
by cmiles74 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @06:49PM
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They aren't lending the physical book and the digital book simultaneously; there's only ever one "book" lent. To my mind this is materially different from sites like Anna's Archive.
Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending
by EarlKing on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @10:54PM
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The law is the law, and the court doesn't care about your opinion. They broke the law.
Seriously, I don't understand the reluctance of some to admit this. It's almost like the rule of law just doesn't exist for you as long as it's a cause you care about. Even more puzzling is the idea that you should just wantonly break the law in a way that drags down good institutions with you as if your own personal battle with bad law is more important than anything else. It really isn't, and I wish some of you would accept that fact rather than trying to one-up each other on the internet. It's not helping anybody.