/vr/ - Retro Games

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>there are legal precedents against archive.org
The library & ebook thing truly was a chronic mistake.
It was a novel (HAR HAR) idea, libraries closed due to 'rona so allow access to books, until they cut into popular works and were straight up sharing PDF rips of commercial books.
Like I get normalfags could only ever access something like zlib from a .com frontend or not request files through bots but I still don't know what Archive were thinking.

At the time I remember looking for a specific edition of a book so I could check the formatting & typeface for matching on an 8" reader and I had a decent amount of trouble finding it. Then archive did their silly library sharing, it got flooded and all of a sudden there were just pdf scans from the commercial book right there for me to look at and copy with no need to go tracking it down irl, but not just that specific edition, almost every reprint was there too including editions currently published.

All this and they do it at a time when normalfags weren't commuting so publishers were worrying about their physical book sales and trying to also get people bored at home into the idea of buying ebooks.
I still don't know what the fuck they were thinking.

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