Gregory's Server@AndersBaerbock @internetarchive If that's considered piracy under the law, then the law should be changed. There is no functional difference whether one loans a book digitally or physically.
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@AndersBaerbock @internetarchive Digital books, and by extension anything digital, becomes obsolete and unreadable if not either replaced or maintained. A good example of this is the Domesday Book. The physical version from almost 1000 years ago is still readable, but an electronic version from the 80s is almost impossible to look through now because no modern computers can read it and no one bothered to maintain it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project @socks @internetarchive But that's a talk for another thread. Have a great Sunday. @AndersBaerbock @socks @internetarchive Uhh: https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/15/digital-books-wear-out-faster-than-physical-books/ Not to mention maintaining the storage medium and server hosting the said books. |
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Changing the law corresponds to the legislative branch in democratic countries.
For publishers, there's actually an important difference: When libraries lend physical books, those items get worn out and eventually need replacement. Besides the hassle for the user who may prefer to buy his/her own copy instead of making recurrent trips to borrow one.
But lending electronically will be only good business for the manufacturers and sellers of electronic equipment.