So court rulings have proved the Archive's Open Library is simply a pirate site dressed up in good intentions.
[
Even the main free downloads has increasing amounts of copyright content.*]
Check before you download and support libraries that pay the content providers.
Quote:
|
Together, we will continue to advocate for a future where libraries can purchase, own, lend and preserve digital books.
|
That's not achieved by making up your own rules for other people's copyrighted content.
Lobby governments. For example Amazon's KU / KDP Select and Amazon's attitude to libraries is the big threat to readers. Not publishers and authors who don't want copyright violated by Internet Archive / Open Library.
EDIT
[* Just my impression and probably now outdated as I've not visited/searched there in a while]