Okay, great (and IMHO reasonable) but do you think the content owners would agree with that? Because I'm pretty sure they would scream bloody murder. Note that the content owners are not necessarily the content creators.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'd have no issues with that, because the author has been compensated for the book you've read, and nobody else can read that copy at the same time that you are.
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Why is the uniqueness or exclusive of the copy important? The entire point of the digital age is that scarcity as found in physical objects doesn't exist any longer.
What I am getting at, if we could find a way to notify the library of the books we're "virtually loaning", and they pay out the authors based on usage, and all this is covered by my library card and the taxes which pay for the library, who stands to lose?
It is not us or our morals that are broken, it is the content management and delivery system.