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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the fact you have to be there and read it while connected is the secret sauce to prove that it's a "real" library, meaning they have a fixed number of copies (max players connected to the server at any given time) and that helps them get protected the same way a real library is?

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doubt thats the point. I mean, real libraries at this point also lend out e-books, and i dont think they have an upper limit. Probably more to do that libraries (or the cities that finance them) have deals with publishers, and IA doesnt.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

YMMV, but my local library system has a limit on the number of e-books that can be checked out at a time. Some e-books they only have 1 or 2 “copies” of, other they have 20+ “copies”. Seems dumb to me that there’s a limit, but I’m sure they’re forced to do it for a reason.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

Ugh. Oh well, cant have nice things i guess