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Originally Posted by sealbeater
From the article:
"I asked someone who used to have that job, what would it take to make the books viewable in full to everybody? I wanted to know how hard it would have been to unlock them. What’s standing between us and a digital public library of 25 million volumes?
You’d get in a lot of trouble, they said, but all you’d have to do, more or less, is write a single database query. You’d flip some access control bits from off to on. It might take a few minutes for the command to propagate."
So close and yet so far...
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Yes, I figure it would not be as hard as half of the hacking that goes on, but too few people read books anymore for anyone to care
