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The Internet Archive lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive

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  • doesnt this put in jeopardy all the libraries that do digital checkout? my local library system does this.

    • Mostly no. Those are usually incredibly expensive licenses bought from the publisher. It does put digital interlibrary loan in a weird spot, though.

      • Those are usually incredibly expensive licenses bought from the publisher.

        So I was right; this does boil all the way down to "the pissy little capitalist pig publishing houses aren't getting their kickback so now they're tantruming". Fuck it; I'm going back to full-scale pirating anything that wasn't independently produced and published.

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