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Old 10-31-2010, 03:57 PM   #31
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My, my... If we are about to use the new possibilities offered by the technology to advocate any change, why not keep the same model (books are acquired once by library system, held forever, and pennies are paid directly to the author), just create a national digital library, mighty servers and all, the smallest budget for the service that we decided long ago is a)needed, b)financed from the taxes?
It's another option, but if you're willing to absorb the wrath of the rights holders by only paying them pennies it would be less expensive to just legalize file sharing or reduce copyright to 7 years. I was just suggesting a model that I believe the rights holders might be willing to accept.
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