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> Whatever works for you I guess, lol. Do you consider libraries to be facilitating piracy? If not, how do Causality1's examples differ?
by vageli 7y ago
> Whatever works for you I guess, lol.
Do you consider libraries to be facilitating piracy? If not, how do Causality1's examples differ?
- mprev 7y agoIn the UK, at least, public libraries pay a tiny fee to the author each time the book is borrowed. We are talking pennies a year but, in terms of intent at least, it is not the same.
- nkurz 7y agoInteresting, as an American I'd never realized that this payment existed. Here's more info about the "Public Lending Right" in some of the countries that use it: https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2018/03/article_0007.html https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2018/03/article_0007.h...
- paulcole 7y agoI would if my local library uploaded torrents to Pirate Bay. But instead they check out the copies they’ve paid for OR are in some kind of paid arrangement with a streaming service.