Caltrops - Dead Trees





	[quote name="Mysterio"]I was all, why is blackwater being short to me? Then I read what I wrote. Man, I'm a prick. [quote name="blackwater"]So let's say you bought one copy of each book in your home town's library, and scanned them all in to your computer. And then you started "lending them out" online on your web site. Maybe you even used DRM to make it so that the users didn't get permanently readable copies, or something.[/quote] Well, this isn't what is happening. The internet archive is a registered/licensed/whatever library. But I was a jerk to you for no reason so I take what I said earlier back and apologize. [quote]But let's say you didn't restrict it so that only one user could read each book at once.[/quote] But they did! They restrict it usually they just made an exception right now. And again, I am sorry. [quote]So you might have 1000 people reading Infinite Jest at the same time. But you only bought one copy.[/quote] Agreed. Not great if they just did it one day, but they did this now because physical libraries all over the country are closed. Which I ddi not know before this all went down. I didnt think about libraries and just assumed they stayed open but it appears they arent. [quote]So it's not straight-up Pirate Bay style piracy, but the authors are definitely losing some sales here.[/quote] Well if you look at their copies I dont know man. I wouldnt read a book that was pdf jpg png whatever it is scans. The kindle versions are alot better. But in general sure sales are being lost. The whole concept of libraries to begin with woul weird me out if I was an author. I don't know what the happy medium is. [quote]We can argue about how many sales they're losing (a boring argument that happens every time piracy comes up), but now you understand the basic idea-- I hope.[/quote] Well sure. But also I think that the part that I found notable was that the people who had a book there were being soooooo cunty about it. Some of them have started to delete their tweets so I think they know how cunty they were being.And the ones that had no items there but were all BRAH BRLAHHGHGH REMEEOVE ME are ones we can all point and laugh at togther I hope?? [quote]Hopefully this also explains why Netflix can't just buy a single DVD of all the latest Marvel movies and then start streaming all of them to everyone without paying any royalties. That would be retarded, like a Konami code for copyright. It's not how any of this works. (Even ignoring issues like first sale doctrine not applying to digital performance rights, DMCA anti-circumvention measures, etc.)[/quote] Once again I hope you know I feel bad for my earlier tone and I will stop being a Mysterio now that I know why and will be a new person with a name here, reitring thisone. [/quote]