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Originally Posted by Lemurion
While I dislike DRM on my own purchased works intensely, I don't have an issue with the idea of library DRM. DRM does provide tools for managing and tracking individual licenses - and as long as libraries continue to track eBooks similarly to paper books (we have x number of copies available and once they're all out the next person has to wait until someone returns one), they are going to need a way to manage those licenses.
I think letting them have DRM on those books is a reasonable trade-off for being able to read them for free.
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But we aren't reading them for free, every checkout will be bought and paid for. Tracking is a nice feature, but the idea of limited copies in the digital space is absurd.
HC wants the taxpayer to pay for a book license upon download or slightly before, this is absurd as well. I and many others check out multiple library books and then only read a few of those before sending them back. This use does not align with prepayment of book licenses. Something must be done and so it shall be done.
