Mysterio wrote:

The Happiness Engine wrote:

So if I buy one copy of Civ6 and call myself a non-profit I can give a cracked version of it to everyone in the country. That's the hill you're dying on today.

I've told you multiple times that they can only loan one copy out at a time, same as every library with a physical presence, you goddamn simpleton.

The Internet Archive is registered as a library but has asserted an untested (the publishers say “invented”) theory called “Controlled Digital Lending” (CDL), that argues libraries are not infringing copyright when they make digital copies of books they possess. Publishers and authors have been unhappy about this approach, but held fire while the Internet Archive restricted the number of e-books it would make available at any given time to the number of physical books it possessed.

That restriction went out the window in March, however, when the Internet Archive decided that due to the coronavirus it would make all its e-books available without a waiting list. That abandons the library principle of limited e-book access, the publisher's claim.