[nanovision]

This is sad. If this was indeed copyright infringement, what was the rationale behind the Internet Archive initially adding these books? The Internet Archive has never been a pirate site, so there must have been some logic or justification for indexing these books.

[CSMastermind]

> what was the rationale behind the Internet Archive initially adding these books

They believed they had the legal right to distribute the books.

You can read the whitepaper about it here: https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper/

[Ekaros]

It is a pirate site... I think in the end they are just enabled data hoarders who will hoard nearly everything... Including stuff nearly everyone would consider as piracy.