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Proper libraries pay a licence fee per simultaneous loan and in some countries a per loan royalty for ebooks. The IA claimed they were also fighting for libraries. They weren't.
Copyright needs reformed but simply ignoring it and cheating living authors and the estates of recently dead ones isn't the way to do it. It was a deliberate attack on copyright.
They also have copyright violating works in their general downloads as well as the so called "Open Library".
Fair use doesn't include scanning entire books and loaning them. Google's case needs revisited, they won because they claimed they were not sharing the books but using them to aid search, also a stretch of fair use.
Exactly who funds IA and their mirror site in Eqypt?
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