This article is very well written and very helpful. It presents the case for digital lending quite well. But in the last 20 years, pirates have abused digital

This article is very well written and very helpful. It presents the case for digital lending quite well. But in the last 20 years, pirates have abused digital copies of data and given digital copies a bad name. Today the publishers are sore from that experience. And they fight like they always did before. But they will use court cases against pirates to justify suit against IA. And that sucks. Judges worldwide have sided with opposing sides on the issue. No consistency has been reached. It is clear that courts cannot interpret these issues with consistency. So legislatives must CREATE rules for digital content and digitized content. And they are not the same. The latter is conversion of data into a less than digital format and this takes effort, the kind of effort like buying tires, creating molds for them, and distributing tires made from those molds. Current copyright laws do not distinguish between digital and paper products. Paper products before year 2000 should be digitizable. After should need to be paid a fee. And lending should be clarified.