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Originally Posted by Mambo
I did not know that reading books in the library for free is like sneaking into movie theaters. Or what should someone do if he/she is poor in your opinion? Not reading anything and similarly not eat and die?
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Oh come on. I find it hard to take people seriously who insist they can't afford the price of books,
yet are downloading them from the internet. For the money spent on a computer and internet connection, you can buy a
lot of books. Books are not food. You will not die if you don't read. Besides, in most civilized countries, public libraries are (nearly) free.
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Originally Posted by Mambo
My view is Copying = electronic library. As long as somebody does not set up a real electronic library. And I don't think that it should be my problem that there is no infrastructure or monetary interest for such a business/service?
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It shouldn't be
my problem either, should it?
Remember that books in libraries
are paid for. Either by your subscription money, or via taxes if library access is free. Either way, if it were standard practise that people borrowed books from libraries, made exact copies from them (rendering them just as valuable as the original) and started distributing those, you can bet that the library system would collapse.
I'm all for a digital library. But publishers would like to see that all reasonable effort is spent to make sure you "return" your copy after it's "expired".
And since the DRM issue hasn't been properly solved yet, don't expect to see digital libraries anytime soon.