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Originally Posted by Barcey
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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I was playing the devil's advocate, Barcey, and introduced an inflated counter-argument as an illustration.
As it is said in the opening message to this topic, I am certain only of one thing: the digitalization of the content is what is called "the disruptive technology", the one that redefines the game. The attempt to cling to the analogy with pbooks doesn't cut it, both for publishers, consumers, and here, for an institution with a long tradition. It is testing and redefining everything related to books.
I do apologize for the way how this topic turned political. It was my assumption that the political potential of the topic is self-evident.
Be it as it may, it seems to me that almost every person who expressed his opinion was talking about a change, even if it was only a minor "fix" to the way how public libraries operate today. It seems to me that we are in violent agreement: a change is upon us.