If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
<i>which made copyrighted books available for free during the COVID-19 pandemic. The publishers behind the lawsuit alleged that this entailed copyright infringement.</i><p>Along with everybody with two brain cells to rub together. We all screamed &quot;Hey, you idiots are going to ruin everything if you act like the pandemic has magically nullified the concept of copyright&quot; and they fucking did it anyway, and now exactly what we said would happen is happening. It&#x27;s like you found a landmine in your front yard and your buddy said &quot;That landmine shouldn&#x27;t be there so I&#x27;m gonna go step on it&quot; and you told him not to and then had to watch him throw himself onto it while declaring it would be morally wrong for it to blow his stupid ass up.<p>Controlled digital lending had a chance of getting off the ground. The IA&#x27;s Emergency Library&#x27;s unlimited digital lending burned it to the ground and stomped on the ashes.