Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books

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Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books
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No, I'm paying full attention to your claim that the Internet Archive provoked publishers into suing them for something unrelated to that supposed provocation.

The Internet Archive was distributing unlimited copies of ebooks whose rights were held by major publishers.

The major publishers sued them for distributing copies of ebooks whose rights were held by them.

Yeah, totally unrelated.

Me:

But the lawsuit was about CDL as a whole, not what happened in 2020.

You:

Yes, the lawsuit is about CDL as a whole.

So is it about what happened in 2020 or is it about something public libraries do too?

For example: https://blc.org/controlled-digital-lending

You are both speculating about what triggered the lawsuit because the only people that know for sure what triggered the lawsuit are the publishers and they aren't talking.

If all public libraries are using CDL and the publishers have only sued IA, who flagrantly violated CDL, and they sued them only 2 months after they started violating the CDL, then that certainly seems like a very possible factor in the lawsuit, right?