Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead

Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by dbsmith83 on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:36AM (#35288868)

> Even now it's a cinch, in 20 years it'll be so easy that if any text or video has any public exposure it'll be copied by consumers as a matter of course—copyright holders bedamed. (Think Google Glass—like tech that captures everything a human sees in high definition. If a human sees it then it will be copied automatically. Right, copyright is on the wall without major reform.)

That is, until your phone apps start scanning works automatically to detect copyrighted material before allowing you to store it on their cloud-storage

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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by hilbert42 on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:50PM (#35295263)

Come on, cloud storage? Why bother with cloud storage when one will have pentabytes in a thumbnail-sized chip? I would never use cloud storage in a pink fit. Trust Microsoft, Google, et al with my data. Not likely.

And why use a phone and locked-in apps? I suggest you read how I use my phone now, in 20 years I'll have even more control over my data: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=35243759

Also check my comment underneath in reply to a commentator.

You're obviously of the smartphone generation, I'm pre that so I think outside that box. In 20 years things will be very different and that doesn't necessarily mean that Big Tech will still rule the roost.

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