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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

They should have poked the bear with a separate legal entity so the obvious resulting legal loss wouldn't effect their core operations.

I support the idea as long as it's for dead authors/out of print books, but from what I understand they were just letting people 'borrow' anything? That's just stupid (if idealistic)