Comment by Ajedi32
17 hours ago
What if you're not charging for the content, but as compensation for the network bandwidth / server resources consumed by serving that content? The idea isn't to profit from content (the IA is a nonprofit anyway), just to allow the IA to continue to serve its purpose as an archive of public data without being overwhelmed by bots.
Exactly, it's a question for the lawyers to sort out.
And they're likely on risky enough ground after the book lending thing