You really think that the country that passed the DMCA and strongly pressures all its trading partners to enforce IP protection, is ever going to scan every boo

You really think that the country that passed the DMCA and strongly pressures all its trading partners to enforce IP protection, is ever going to scan every book and upload it straight to a project that has already been associated with “piracy”? In any event, the prospect that in some enlightened future states are going to scan their library holdings, is little comfort for people in the present who rely on libraries to get all that wealth of knowledge unavailable in digital form.