We find public libraries morally OK as they allow people who would not otherwise have access to knowledge and literature to access it. If the poor could copy w

We find public libraries morally OK as they allow people who would not otherwise have access to knowledge and literature to access it. If the poor could copy without restriction and without the prospect of losing the ability to do so, public libraries would be redundant. But projecting DRM fantasies onto the economics of this distorts the very real moral case for libraries.