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How would this differ from a system of public libraries, which most advanced countries have?
by dansitu 2y ago
How would this differ from a system of public libraries, which most advanced countries have?
- aftbit 2y agoBecause it offers the content to everyone anywhere for free without authentication or a limit on the number of concurrent copies available. Is this a good tradeoff between protecting IP to incentivize creation through monetization and the various societal goods of making it widely available? I don't know, but it is certainly a different point on the continuum than traditional libraries.
- qwerty456127 2y ago> Is this a good tradeoff between protecting IP to incentivize creation through monetization and the various societal goods of making it widely available? I don't know The actual current status-quo is. Despite the most of the worthy books being available on pirate websites, people still buy books. Publishers still are not bankrupt. Even independent individuals post "I wrote a book" here every now and then, link to DRM-free purchase pages and seem happy. I personally spent many hundreds dollars buying DRM-free ebooks on GumRoad and HumbleBundle (despite most of them being on LibGen!). I also bought numerous hardcover paper books after reading their pirated ebook versions.