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Originally Posted by tompe
Exactly how are libraries respecting copyright when they lend books? I thought that was a legal dis-respecting of copyright.
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Giggleton was suggesting that libraries have some kind of open servers from which anyone can download anything freely. It sounds a lot like Napster, which as we all know,
was sued out of existence (at least in its original form). Even if you don't like copyright, you can't just pretend that it doesn't exist and expect everyone around you to act accordingly.
I certainly don't agree with HarperCollins in this, I think it will backlash for them and end up encouraging ebook piracy, which is already on the increase. And making it harder for people to read HarperCollins books is not going to encourage very many people to buy HarperCollins books, so I suspect their sales will suffer as well (though it's too early to see how much).