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Re:Publishers secure widespread support in copyright battle ... by coderatlarge on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:32AM (#39827047)
If society invested in a system of tubes reaching from libraries to all homes, each tube containing a sequence of small mirrors and lenses capable of bouncing an image all the way down the tube, and eventually into a home that connected its viewer to that tube; and the libraries kept the physical books they owned in small, well-lighted spaces, with page-turning robots, so that the images of the book page could be bounced through the mirror-tubes, and the readers in their homes could signal to the page-turning robots what page to flip to, would it then be ok for people in their homes to read the books physically located in the library, without paying separate remote-viewing licensing fees above and beyond the purchase price of the book?

I'm a creator too and I benefit from the protection of intellectual property I create. But I also recognize that my freedom ends where others' begins and that the benefit of society overall must also be weighed, since I didn't just grow up and survive all on my own in the wilds but rather relied on all the other good people that happen to be around me...

Re:Publishers secure widespread support in copyright battle ... by brokenmachine on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @12:05AM (#39835610)
This is the kind of insane hypothetical that I keep returning to hacker news for, bravo!
Re:Publishers secure widespread support in copyright battle ... by Turing_Machine on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @10:59AM (#39840152)
Bravo!
Re:Publishers secure widespread support in copyright battle ... by coderatlarge on Thursday March 28, 2024 @10:17PM (#39859894)
Thanks - now if only someone knew a judge who could be entertained and maybe a little provoked :)