Whether I think that the CDL or NEL is a good idea or not is irrelevant, and orthogonal to my point.

The fact that IA disregards copyright law and seems to have a "wait to be sued" mentality means that the donations end up feeling more like lobbying money and less like funding an actual Archive. I'd be totally fine with a CDL being codified into law, and I'd even be fine with IA's version of it, but it doesn't change the fact that Brewster is treating IA like an ideological mission now more than an Archive.

If you want to donate your money to it, that's obviously fine, but I think that it's important to be honest about it.