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The authors Big Bang licence is a bit crazy. Why not just monetise Books in exactly the same way they monetise Video in YouTube? Surely the copyright law is qu

• o_nate 11y ago
  The law is probably similar, but the technological ability to restrict access is not. Youtube allows you to stream only, not download. That makes it easier to get license holders on board. (Yes, there are workarounds for that, but most users won't bother to go to the trouble, and the quality of the download would be degraded from a purchased copy.) With books, there's no easy way to limit access like that while providing a usable service.