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by timschmidt 810 days ago
In this case, the IA has applied DRM, just as media companies do, and anyone breaking that DRM is the person liable for infringement, not the Internet Archive. Even breaking weak sauce DRM violates the terms of the DMCA, and media companies have fought to protect their use of such insufficient schemes. I see no reason that legal wrangling shouldn't also apply to the Internet Archive as well as it does members of the MPAA.