another tldr: Internet Archive thought scanning a copyrighted book was good enough to meet the transformative requirement for Fair Use and thus they could lend out digital copies at will
edit: Throw back to 4 days ago Ars: “Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove IA hurt sales”
b-b-but there were no damages
… It is also irrelevant to assessing market harm ...
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Archive is one of the best places for non Usenet piracy. I can’t imagine any employer blocks archive either. You can google for tons of stuff and “archive” to find anything from obscure dos software to entire collections of every every PlayStation game ever made on archive
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