@internetarchive What should publishers do next? Ban libraries?

I think the real issue is that they're afraid of digital works being stolen by unscrupulous individuals who would try to "hack the system", as it were, like keeping an overdue book from the library. Thing is, they don't know how this works - if a book is overdue at a library, you can't get more books until you return the overdue book. Same as with the Archive's own library, and even though I don't "check out" works from the Archive (I usually try to find the free-to-keep-forever stuff for my purposes), I can't imagine Archive not implementing a similar system to prevent digital theft.

Even so, just to be blunt, copyright sucks. Companies have been abusing their copyright privileges for decades, and it's waaay past time it was stopped for good.