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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

IA definitely has too much to lose to afford picking fights. They got off lucky only having to remove the books. If they had been fined for many counts of copyright infringement, we could have had another library of Alexandria burning situation.