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No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
ZDNet UK; By Rupert Goodwins 		Mail this story
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It is hard to imagine something more expensive, condescending, inaccurate, frustrating and enraging - nor something better calculated to restrict knowledge and broadcast ignorance. It's almost as if the parties involved actively want to prevent people learning. It certainly feels that way. British Library, are you listening?

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jdixon ·
Pretty good, but the original and stil best in many ways is of Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

Since copyright laws are not uniform around the globe, you can sometimes find things on other sites which can't be hosted on the Gutenberg site. Once example is Project Gutenberg Australia, which sometimes has books which are still in copyright in the US. Not that anyone here would download anything illegally, of course. http://gutenberg.net.au/
ColonelPanik ·
Both! And any other Hippie plan that gets any kind of knowledge into the hands of humans.

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