I admire Brewster Kahle, and I and my company have contributed to the IA’s book efforts before, but this project is a violation of copyright and a danger to writers’ already tenuous ability to make ends meet.https://nyti.ms/2WX8A82
The justification for this is that given the pandemic many physical libraries are closed and therefore *in principle* the IA is still only serving one-to-one copies of the many physical books nationwide that are temporarily unavailable
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But this is a weak and abstract argument The basic foundation used to argue for CDL, again, was that there was an absolute and inviolable link between the electronic and physical copy - you're only using the "same book" that you physically bought - so it's not piracy
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There's been no attempt to verify or even estimate exactly how many extant, unreachable physical copies in brick-and-mortar libraries "represents" and reduce waitlists accordingly, waitlists have just been abolished in favor of infinite simultaneous copies
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