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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
And any person who needs to know about the genetics of wheat is likely working at a University or research facility where such libraries exist. If you simply want to read it for your own edification, that is nice, but don't expect the authors of said work, or society to feel obligated to subsidize it.
What grade did you get in history?
The most durable systems tend to be the ones that play one group off against the other, either formally or informally. Party politics, and the inevitable rise of a second party whenever one party collapses has played a big part in preventing tyranny in the United States.
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Bill
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Who are you to say what any person needs to know about? And is not the point of a digital library to allow those who cannot make it to the university to at least have access to the same knowledge that the university offers?
If by durable you mean a few hundred years, then yes these systems do seem durable, but if we extend the timeline to a few thousand I don't think these systems are very durable. At least not without some extreme measures being taken to ensure the the system survives. Meaning waste of resources.
What is proposed is a system where exploitation is not possible, in the realm of art all that is required is an end to copyright.