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it was going to be tested, and IA are exactly the right organization to test it CDL being legalized is dependent on the concept that it respects copyright and
by causi 4y ago
it was going to be tested, and IA are exactly the right organization to test it
CDL being legalized is dependent on the concept that it respects copyright and is only a digital version of rights and practices that already exist. The NEL proved that as far as the IA is concerned, CDL is nothing of the sort and is in actuality just a method of keeping rightsholders from suing them and what they'd really rather be doing is copying every work in existence and giving it away to everybody. They proved they don't want to be a library. They have destroyed their credibility. Other than the operator of Z-Library there is no worse entity to be litigating this.
- Y_Y 4y agoNot wanting to be a library isn't illegal. The actions of IA don't have any bearing on the legality of CDL. You've made it clear that you don't like what they did with NEL and that's reasonable enough, I think extrapolation from there is unwarranted.
- causi 4y agoThey shouldn't have any bearing. In the real world lawyers and judges are flawed human beings whose decisions are influenced by emotion and impression. If being hungry can drop a judge's parole granting rate from 65% to zero, an organization showing they'd really rather be totally flouting the law can certainly influence the outcome of a case.
- Y_Y 4y agothen again maybe that wasn't what was happening with those poor undernourished judges - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14701328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14701328