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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
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[–] cafeinux@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago (57 children)

Just like regular libraries have copyrighted books: they lend them to one person at a time.

[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They definitely weren't monitoring the one at a time rule... I downloaded the file and now have it forever

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a you problem. ;)

[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

How does that make sense? How does putting a "Download PDF" button on their site with no restrictions make this a "me" problem?

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