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by Rebelgecko 1434 days ago
>They weren't just handing out unlimited copies of books.

I don't think that's accurate. This lawsuit didn't happen until they stopped enforcing the constraint that (# of concurrent digital loans) ≤ (# of physical copies IA and their partner libraries have). Thats very different from a regular library, where the number of copies they loan out can't exceed the number of copies they physically posses (or ebook licenses they have, which is a whole nother rabbithole).

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Ahh. Thanks for that context. I thought they were just format shifting.