500k Books Have Been Deleted from the Internet Archive's Lending Library

Copyright laws are far too screwed up and don't make any sense in the modern era. I hope its all archived offline.

[dupe] enough with the TechDirt

Actual article: https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707084

Fantastic news.

They should not have pirated so many books during COVID.

The economics of local and physical loaning don't translate to online, which is global and instant.

"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"