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The Internet Archive is an important resource and needs to be saved. (www.techradar.com)
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[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The thing that triggered Internet Archive’s current enormous lawsuit problems is that they weren’t imposing a borrower limit.

They did have a limit for books originally, but removed it during COVID: https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/. I agree that it was a poor decision.