The Verge reports: A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library. Judge John G. Koeltl decided that the I...
I'm surprised they got away with it this long. What I don't get is why you needed to "rent" them to begin with if they weren't licensed? That always annoyed me, I just wanted to download the damn scan without going through that bs.