I would say far worse than piracy. Libraries give benefit to the communities. To shut them down over profit margins is far worse than losing profit from illegal downloads, because it hurts society as a whole. Would be casting out the baby with the bathwater, to use a metaphor.
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What they've done RECENTLY that's pissed people off MORE is to unilaterally relax their lending restrictions (allow infinite copies of a file to be borrowed at once) because of the virus, again without asking or paying anybody
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And it's not so much about the scale of the money involved as the fact that they think they have the authority to just unilaterally decide this that means this sets a very dangerous precedent
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(And notably, while the first sale doctrine for physical books always you to dispose of the physical book however you want, it doesn’t give you the right to digitally duplicate the book!)
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