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Google234 | 2 years ago

If the library owned an effectively infinite copies of each book why wouldn’t they let you borrow one copy of each book?

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chongli|2 years ago

The online library known as archive.org tried exactly this. They got sued, to no one’s surprise.

gfedtbyby|2 years ago

Because authors and publishers wouldn't be very excited about that and would lobby governments to limit that (and I 100% believe they would be right to do that).