Comment by ForHackernews
2 days ago
This is really sad. You're just pirating books. At least go use a pirate website and don't ruin libraries for the rest of us.
We will no longer have public goods if the public abuses them.
2 days ago
This is really sad. You're just pirating books. At least go use a pirate website and don't ruin libraries for the rest of us.
We will no longer have public goods if the public abuses them.
I honestly don’t see the harm about removing the lending period for my personal reading. It will only make me check out and read more books. Can you detail the harm I am causing? It’s like making photocopies of books for my own use, which is still legal.
The chain of causality is about one link long: If libraries become common vectors for privacy, the powers that be will end libraries. https://time.com/6266147/internet-archive-copyright-infringe...
Photocopying an entire book is, in fact, against the law in most cases: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/academic-and-education...
Selfish people like yourself are why we can't have nice things. Either pay for your books or pirate them outright from bittorrent.