Libraries rent out ebooks too
Libraries loan out ebooks and other media.
/pet peeve.
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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoThere is a difference there in that these are digital copies (easy to make more copies) vs physical books (hard to make more copies).
Libraries rent out ebooks too, also easily stripped of DRM and copied if someone wants to so that. But that is seemingly not an issue.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What he’s saying is not beyond what Congress has previously laid down though. First sale doctrine should let you do whatever you want, but they actually banned renting phonographs because they thought people were recording them on tape. We’re lucky they didn’t outlaw movie rentals too back in the day. Whole copyright regime needs to die in a fire.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stop it man you’re just going to give them ideas
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As someone who may or may not have stripped DRM from library books, they certainly never seemed to care about that. And it was never even to share, but rather to store for myself so I could read it at my own pace. And the worst part… I read it for RECREATIONAL USE
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You wouldn’t download a book?
LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hate when they you wouldn’t download a car.
Yes, I fucking would!
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You disgust me…what a sick and exploitive attitude.