[om8]

Why? They acquired books, that’s what they do

[kleiba]

The OP is referring to the ongoing legal struggles the IA is facing wrt. to their version of an online library (with digital book lending).

[justin66]

Precisely. To be clear, I don't agree with a comment upthread saying the "shoutout" is what might potentially do harm to the IA in court. I think the actual act of having scraped all those books from the IA's lending system could potentially do harm to the IA in court. The publishers can now point to all the copies of the books in the wild that IA had in their lending system and argue that IA's system is not legally acceptable. It was on shaky enough ground already.

[om8]

Oh, ok. Thanks, I agree