I'm a bit surprised that there hasn't been an amicus brief from O'Reilly, who really do get that the market for books is an ecosystem in which libraries are an essential component.
As a nonfiction author I would rather have my pdf books (with a donation link in them) up on sites like archive.org than not have the these sites exist.<p>They are priceless in their function as research and knowledge tools.<p>If archive.org fulfills dmca takedown requests then I don't see what the problem is.
IA is wasting their donors money fighting a case they know they will lose because they had to have known from the beginning that their book system was completely unsupported by law or precedent.<p>I would stop donating until leadership changes, they are risking the ire of courts and prosecutors if they continue. Their archive could be seized or ordered to stop entirely.<p>For an org to legitimately consider this means it's leadership is controlled by unreasonable people that no longer are upholding their mission. They have been told by their legal that this won't work, and are pursuing it anyways.