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In case anyone was wondering what TorrentFreak thinks of this whole thing: https://torrentfreak.com/you-cant-defend-public-libraries-and-oppose-file-sharing-150510/
In the US context, the founding of public libraries were most famously and substantially supported by Carnegie. A man of "crime and robbery" if there ever was one. When you hear "philanthropist" think "tax evasion". Not to mention how he came into possession of all that loot in the first place.
I agree with the author's point broadly but it's not well made.
He gave grants around the world. The library in my small UK town was funded by him nearly a hundred years ago.
They already have it set up so that libraries have to pay them a subscription for their digital lending.
What IA were doing was scanning in physical books and then lending one digital copy per physical book scanned.
At least, that's what they did until the covid lockdowns. Then they temporarily removed the download restriction, and the lawsuit was in response to that.