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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by cmiles74 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @06:49PM (#41451679)
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 (#41453043)
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.

Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by kilolima on Thursday September 05, 2024 @04:46AM (#41454783)
Civil disobedience is breaking the law. Are you suggesting that Rosa Parks should have sat in the back of the bus?