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If the centrepiece of your legal defence is "we're just like a library" it would probably help to behave like a library: for example, if you purchase five books
by rodgerd 2y ago
If the centrepiece of your legal defence is "we're just like a library" it would probably help to behave like a library: for example, if you purchase five books or CDs then lend five copies at a time.
The IA doesn't appear to buy many books or CDs or DVDs (it has donation drives for second-hand copies). It doesn't do any controls over the number of copies "out". It resembles MegaUpload or other piracy sites more than a library.
- mlyle 2y ago> It doesn't do any controls over the number of copies "out". This is untrue; under normal circumstances it had matching numbers "out" in the commercial book collection. It was madness in early 2020 when they temporarily abandoned this control in response to COVID. https://archive.org/details/statisticaltherm0000stid/page/n499/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/statisticaltherm0000stid/page/n4... You can look at a few pages of this book; you can log in and check it out, if no one else has it.