The insane part is that afaik archive.org does not give you access to copyrighted material unless you're granted it by like a publisher or library. So he was literally suing the concept of public archiving lol.
At the time archive was trying to do a sort of internet library thing where they "lend" people pdfs (with drm, if i remember correctly). The idea was to lend at one time only as many digital copies as they physically owned, but with peak corona demand they waivered that rule. In the end of the day the whole operation wasn't technically legal, which is why they folded when hit by the Wendig lawsuit.
The insane part is that afaik archive.org does not give you access to copyrighted material unless you're granted it by like a publisher or library. So he was literally suing the concept of public archiving lol.
Aye, and he insisted that libraries would have to pay him royalties for his work, which again, is not how libraries work. :shrug-outta-hecks:
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He's like a millionaire from selling terrible books, so he's not a class traitor, he's just a piece of shit.
At the time archive was trying to do a sort of internet library thing where they "lend" people pdfs (with drm, if i remember correctly). The idea was to lend at one time only as many digital copies as they physically owned, but with peak corona demand they waivered that rule. In the end of the day the whole operation wasn't technically legal, which is why they folded when hit by the Wendig lawsuit.