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If you believe in free lending libraries, you also must necessarily believe in piracy. They're logically the same thing. Time-shifting is a false meme to manu
by sneak 3y ago
If you believe in free lending libraries, you also must necessarily believe in piracy. They're logically the same thing.
Time-shifting is a false meme to manufacture blame, just like identity theft.
Read books for free. It's fine. Give them to your friends. It's also fine.
Sidestep all this nonsense. Stop giving money to organizations that ship DRM unless you want more shitty DRM.
- lc9er 3y agoExcept libraries pay for their books, and those books cannot be copied and distributed in an unlimited manner. Artist deserve to be compensated for their work.
- candiodari 3y agoThe problem with that is that after 6 months artists invariably choose (through economic necessity, not choice) to deny everyone access to those books forever, which is then enforced through copyright and is just a great loss to everyone.
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- Karellen 3y agoLending libraries don't create new copies of a work. Copyright is about the right to make copies. It's right there in the name. Piracy creates new copies. Lending an existing copy for which someone has paid the copy-right holder, does not.
- supertrope 3y agoLibraries take pains to follow copyright and teach their community members how to legally enjoy works.
- sneak 3y agoOnly because they have a return address. The idea that reading a book for free in one context is "legal" and reading the same book for free in another context is "illegal" is simply legal fiction invented by congress to prop up an industry. It's not a law of nature and it's not even logically consistent. You are free to ignore bad laws. Read books for free. It's fine. It's what libraries are for, and it's what the internet is for. The idea of "copies" is irrelevant. If 100 people in parallel all have a file of book on their tablet simultaneously and read it for free or 100 people all serially check out the same single physical instance from a lending library and read it for free the effect (and amount paid to the copyright holder) are precisely the same.
- evancox100 3y agoYou seem not to understand the difference between consuming a good or service that someone else has agreed to pay for, vs not paying for it at all.