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Yeah, I am finding it very hard to forgive them for falling in with the "covid suspends the normal rules" hysteria. They still have a chance to salvage the situation if they start exfiltrating their hard drives to a country not on friendly terms with the western IP regime, but time is running out.

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Covid suspended a lot of normal rules, but those that could affect massive accumulations of wealth are of course not to be touched under any circumstances.

It didn't suspend the rules, it only made a lot of people feel entitled to break the rules. Those with power will never be held accountable for the various rules they broke, but those without that kind of privilege will be paying for what they did. Archive.org falls into the latter.

Lockdowns and attire and medication mandates weren't suspending normal rules? Their necessity can be argued for, but they clearly and dramatically suspended very fundamental liberties and rights.

No. They violated them. There's a difference.

Depressing that in this 'enlightened' age, this statement is the closest to closure we will ever have for all the in-plain-sight rule breaking by the powers that be.

Technology, the great equalizer, except when it's not. Mostly not.

Can IA ask all users to certify that they were using IA for research use only and qualify for the research use exemption under the copyright laws?

Lending books was to individual user accounts, so I’d guess it could be possible to reach out to users.

I’ve used IA lending one time when I wanted to check a reference in an old book and it was purely research use.

I would imagine that most of the IA use cases are research or teaching, not entertainment.

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