More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️
Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead
👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...
I believe they already do that, and I think we can be fairly certain the publishers didn't have the books removed because the authors weren't getting paid fairly. ;P
Do you return the football match when you’re done with it?
What’s the difference between being able to view a book online for a time and being able to have a book at home for a time?
As a librarian I can tell you - nothing. This is just an attempt to try and protect publishers profits and destroy libraries, something that the political right has been working at for well over a century.
That's a very strange way of spelling "yes it's illegal"
I mean 90% of rapes that take place "aren't punished by law" but it doesn't equate to rape being legal does it (you absolute melon)
Delete your account
People like you tried to destroy public libraries in the early 20th Century, absolutely delete your account. You've made an absolute fool of yourself here contorting logic to produce "no, actually it's not piracy when I do it"
Have some shame and delete your account.
Of course not - what's comparable is that neither of them are punished very frequently by law enforcement, a fact that should be pointed out as frequently as possible imo.
You could make the same analogy for parking in front of a fire hydrant, the crime itself is not the point of comparison
