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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
In North America they do just buy a physical book and loan it out. IA is US based. Not EU or Ireland based.
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Who exactly funds IA and their servers in Egypt?
Also a global Internet operation has to meet laws where it's available as Meta/Facebook, Alphabet/Google, X/Twitter, Tiktoc etc have discovered. Having a (tenuous?) US base is irrelevant unless they are operating only within the USA.
Even in USA the Libraries do not buy physical books and loan them as ebooks. The USA libraries do not not make up their own rules.
I used to be a great fan of IA and it's still handy for sites that have gone off line, but they are being sued by publishers. They do ignore copyright violations and take down requests unless you have expensive lawyers.
The convenience and valid services of IA should not blind people to, or excuse, their arrogance and disregard of IP others, even living authors.