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I'm not saying companies should follow different rules than people, I'm saying the rules as written make no sense. This particular example just happens to make
by Ajedi32 1y ago
I'm not saying companies should follow different rules than people, I'm saying the rules as written make no sense. This particular example just happens to make that fact more readily apparent due to the sheer scale of the needless waste involved.
- alias_neo 1y agoI'm anti-DRM myself, but someone else could argue that the rules are partly doing their job; preventing companies from just gobbling up digital copies, it just happens that they have he resources to take advantage of a loophole by scanning the books in themselves. The best solution I can come up with would be a digital library where one org, say the internet archive has scanned everything once, then they're charge a licence fee to these orgs to ingest a copy, and the part of the payment goes to the author, no big wastage, the information gets archived and the orgs pay their share.