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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Because those systems simply won't work. Already been proven.
I saw several libraries that tried this and they all failed:
1. The systems were hacked to prevent the content from expiring, or
2. The readers of the eBooks were restricted to the point that only a very, very small number of people could use it, or
3. The expiration code simply didn't work (didn't expire soon enough, expired too soon, etc.).
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Do you have any support for that assertion? Just curious as to where the several online libraries were hiding ... I was never lucky enough to find one until very recently. Also, I don't see that the expiration code program not working is somehow a failure of the system as a whole, it just sounds like poor programming to me. Ditto over restricting the books or content expiring ... allowing someone to "loan out" a book they purchased is not the same as a library system ... it's a purchase system with loan out capability that I am suggesting.
So, basically, as I understand it, that hasn't been tried before, so you can't really say that it has already been tried and failed.