I feel like this article took a quick turn from “Bing went down” to “Google bad”.

I am glad more people realize who’s actually behind DDG and such.

Lemmy has downvotes, but some specific instances (servers) do not allow them.

Or you sit in the library and “read” it. Now how do you define where the library is? Many libraries loan out digital copies. You can sit in a book store (they exist!) and read a book without purchasing it too.

It’s going to be difficult to use the “they couldn’t possibly have had legit access to all these books” argument in court.

ESPresence definitely rocks. I use it at home in a similar configuration, though I use a beacon app on my phone.