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Let Readers Read | Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can you eli10 why their method violates the law? Seeing a one sided view from their pov does not reveal this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm mostly just parroting what others have said, I'm not a lawyer. But my understanding is that online book lending is supposed to be limited to a discrete number of lendees at a time, just like the books at a physical library. IA knew this and yet decided to remove restrictions so that more people could borrow books than they were allowed to lend out at once.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In the article it said they were lending to one user at a time though which seems reasonable. You are saying they didn't actually do this and that is the reason they are in hot water? So they are basically just denying that they did this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I'd like to see evidence of what the original poster on this thread says before trusting what they are saying. I haven't seen this be the case at all.

"We purchase and acquire books—yes, physical, paper books—and make them available for one person at a time to check out and read online"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The term you're looking for is National Emergency Library.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Again, mostly just parroting what I've seen others say, but my understanding is that they relaxed the restriction around when COVID started, though in the eyes of the law that's not really a good reason to break that particular rule.

I respect the scepticism though, definitely take everything I'm saying with a huge grain of salt.