- cross-posted to:
- academia@mander.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- academia@mander.xyz
If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at the demands of big publishers who refused to let them buy and lend new copies, and were further suing the library for damages, wouldn’t you think that would be a major news story? Wouldn’t you think many people would be up in arms about it?
And that’s the reason why sites like this one shouldn’t be registered and hosted in the USA.
They literally poked the bear. They had a copyright exception for the Wayback machine. Apparently they though it would be a good idea to put everything in danger by illegally sharing books. They say they should be exempt because they are a library but all libraries are still required to follow the law.
They shared them the exact same way regular libraries do it.
They didn’t though
That’s why they are getting sued.
The decision opens the door to doing the same thing to any library that offers digital copies of the books they own.
That was the problem that started this mess. They aren’t even willing to admit that was the cause. If they would have admitted wrong doing off the bat and looked to settle the book publishers may of just left them alone. The problem is they can’t see past there own nose
Would have
Thanks