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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For sure. Libraries are the thin line between civilization and barbarity, paraphrase
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That is a good question. I admit I am curious as well.
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The issue is that the price of buying a physical book to lend in circulation and the price of an ebook lending license are different - the latter is much higher - because an ebook can be lent many more times to many more people than one physical book and depresses sales more
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Honestly at this point, looking at what the world is like for content creators, I'd be willing to entertain that argument It's a bad idea on practical grounds, just like it's a bad idea for a store to insist on a strip and cavity search of all patrons exiting the building
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But if I *want* to make access to my content as restrictive as possible I have the right to In practical terms this is why you're seeing an uptick of exclusive live shows with really onerous "NO PHONES" policies
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Are we talking about moral rights or legal rights In terms of legal rights, the existence of lending libraries for physical books is pretty set in stone and it's a wild fantasy to think anyone will ever have the power to get them banned, ESPECIALLY print publishing
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In terms of what I think can be morally justified, I think it's totally fine to say "Burn this after reading it and don't let anyone else touch it or you're an asshole"
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