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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by bawolff on Thursday September 05, 2024 @12:34AM (#41453495)
The correct way is to change laws is to lobby your elected representitive. Blatently breaking them generally doesn't work. It can when the laws are morally repungent, but the majority of the population are never going to find copyright law repungant the same way society found, say segregation, repungent.

Copyright law may suck. The IA's actions were an extremely silly way to fight it, really didn't help anybody, and it was obvious from the get go that it wouldn't.

Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by pastage on Thursday September 05, 2024 @02:56AM (#41454240)
IA helped a lot of people, what they did was right. Maybe not legal.
Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by immibis on Thursday September 05, 2024 @03:37AM (#41454444)
Do you really think the political system is functional?
Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by bawolff on Thursday September 05, 2024 @10:09AM (#41456794)
All things are relative. I think its more functional than just assuming that a judge is going to whole-heartedly set aside the law.