[thothamon]

My questions on this are very simple:

1. Did they legally acquire the books they scanned?

2. Are they only allowing one subscriber at a time to check out/read the book?

If so, then they are doing exactly what libraries do. To argue that there's some fundamental difference between a physical book and an electronic book is exactly why people hate the music industry, and if the publishing industry tries to go in the same direction, they'll get the same results.

[sp332]

2. They are not. http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...

[cfmcdonald]

But this suit alleges that even when they were, it was illegal.