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IA is definitely on shaky legal ground here. But as far as I'm concerned, they're in the right.
They're in horrible legal ground. What they did was illegal (though not necessarily wrong), but now they're risking dying on this hill, which will cause people to lose a valuable service. They need to surrender the hill before it's too late, if it's not too late already
Yeah. When I heard what they were doing with the library stuff. I thought that was such a weird hill to die on.
Like how could any lawyer tell them they had a chance in hell of breaking copyright law at scale, because of the pandemic?
And they didn't create a new organization to do this very legally risky thing, they did it under their normal organization not some LLC. Crazy