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    10 months ago

    Wait, wasn’t the case about the archive giving people unlimited borrowing during COVID?

    To me using the internet archive’s interface is clunkier than archive.today’s. Maybe it’s the thumbnails, maybe it’s the loading times.

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      10 months ago

      Wait, wasn’t the case about the archive giving people unlimited borrowing during COVID?

      Yes. That I don’t have an issue with, although I think it was a mistake in hindsight.

      The issue was trying to face the publishers head on in court, and then coming at them with a frivilous legal argument that had no hope in succeeding. They’ve done the same with their appeal - and donors have paid for both. They should have done absolutely everything they could to settle out of court.

      To me using the internet archive’s interface is clunkier than archive.today’s. Maybe it’s the thumbnails, maybe it’s the loading times.

      I agree, but just because archive.today is more polished doesn’t mean it’s more trustworthy or respectable.

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        10 months ago

        Ah, that makes me much calmer. I thought they also lost their right to classic library-style lending…

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          10 months ago

          No they did lose it, I believe. As part of the trial a judge ruled that scanning physical copies and lending out one digital copy per physical copy scanned was illegal. They were operating in a legal grey area, then as soon as they came out of that grey area they lost it. That’s why I think they should have settled out of court.

          They were sued for lending unlimited copies, fought it, then ended up being told they couldn’t lend any copies without a license.