You can't defend public libraries and oppose file-sharing

Re:You can't defend public libraries and oppose file-sharing by grecy on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @11:20AM (#10191966)

And this concept is shackling libraries today.

My local library will only allow one person to "borrow" a given e-book at a time. You must wait until someone else returns it before you can "borrow" it for a set period of time.

Obviously this is nonsense, and if the library were interested in efficient lending, they'd let everyone that wanted it borrow the e-book at the same time.

IMO, the same applies to DVDs - why not let thousands of people "borrow" a digital copy of a DVD simultaneously

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Re:You can't defend public libraries and oppose file-sharing by rhino369 on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @12:40PM (#10192462)

But it's always been nonsense. A library could print their own copy of books for hundreds of years. They could easily do it since Xerox was invented. Digital just reduces the cost to copying just a little bit.

There is a fundamental difference between loaning and copying, both from a legal and moral perspective.

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Re:You can't defend public libraries and oppose file-sharing by lazylizard on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:38PM (#10192816)

how can one return the song one just heard on radio? does anyone intend to?

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