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The difference is VidAngel owned 1 copy for each concurrent live stream. You can rip a movie or scan a book you own and share it with a million people at once.
by squeaky-clean 4y ago
The difference is VidAngel owned 1 copy for each concurrent live stream.
You can rip a movie or scan a book you own and share it with a million people at once. VidAngel wasn't doing that. Every stream was 1-to-1 with a real physical copy. If they had 1000 people streaming the movies at once, it meant they had 1000 physical copies as well.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoThat is how the IA's controlled digital lending works. For every copy lent out, there's a physical copy of the book sitting unused somewhere owned by the IA or affiliates. The only time that wasn't true was during the National Emergency Library.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoA key point is that IA suspended CDL and decided to lend out unlimited copies during the pandemic. They were probably treading the line with CDL but by demonstrating a willingness to throw out the limitations at any given world event they wanted makes it a pretty slam dunk case for the publishers.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoThe publishers have a slam dunk case against the National Emergency Library, but this case is about CDL as a whole.