• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    There’s really no credible argument that their distribution of books even might be legal.

    Their only defense is fair use, and there’s no precedent for a “fair use” defense justifying copying a work wholesale for mass distribution. (Yes, “one copy at a time” to multiple people is mass distribution.) Copying a whole work has effectively only qualified as fair use when that copy is not re-distributed, and is actually for a personal backup.