Re:Twilight of the Libraries: What Gets Lost When Books Go O...
by hedora on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @05:36PM
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The main problem with digitization is that it facilitates censorship and forgery.
We are already seeing a lot of this; especially in DRM’ed collections.
If everyone just downloaded the entire library locally (this is completely feasible with consumer drives), and used some sort of snapshotting rsync, then this problem would go away.
DRM prevents that, even for some public domain works.
We are already seeing a lot of this; especially in DRM’ed collections.
If everyone just downloaded the entire library locally (this is completely feasible with consumer drives), and used some sort of snapshotting rsync, then this problem would go away.
DRM prevents that, even for some public domain works.