> This is how Internet Archive’s lending library works, and has for more than nine years. Wow. And why do you think noone sued for nine years?? Maybe because

> This is how Internet Archive’s lending library works, and has for more than nine years. Wow. And why do you think noone sued for nine years?? Maybe because as long as the IA behaved like that it was legal but they changed how they work because of COVID and became a pirate site overnight. They basically said "we do not know how many physical copies are languishing in closed libraries so we will just pretend there are infinite copies". That is of course nonsense.