It's absurd that the most consequential part of this entire ruling is treated as a literal footnote and given no more due consideration.
It's a footnote because it's the most inconsequential part of the ruling. The copyright infringement status of making thousands of unlicensed digital copies is not affected by whether you own a physical copy or not.
This ruling isn't about making thousands of digital copies. They're no longer able to offer even 1 digital copy.
The CDL is where they would buy N physical copies of a book, and then allow N active rentals of the digitally scanned version of that book with a waiting list for when people "return" them. Can't do that anymore.
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