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The fact that a major corporation can just lose all sense of irony and remote memory hole Orwell's 1984 was what made me a hoarder www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/t...

I donated 🫡 and shared on X. Good luck and thanks for fighting etherscan.io/tx/0xe6f2826...

It's bad for me because my rural library is entirely donation funded, without those books literacy goes down. Books are under enough attacks at the moment, access doesn't need to be a bigger issue than it already is for many.

Another inherited empire with too much power.

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Part of why I download everything that I believe to be even somewhat important and then I get lost in a pile of books I've been meaning to sort

Or though cross-licensing deals deny you access entirely. See linking "Acknowledge the doctrine of first sale and private use." from 2009 blog post linked below...

I've been saying that for years. You don't own a digital book, you own a license to access a digital book, and that license can be revoked at any time.

What can we do?

Oh, I don't think it should be abolished, just radically curtailed. Certainly never lasting after the death of the artist, probably shorter than that; with no option of signing over all future rights, fallback to the artist if unpublished. Opinion in 1841: www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/07/24/m...

Enid BLyton's books have been censored too.

What had changed?

yes but they can't go in and edit the copies you already own is the point

As long as the story remains the same, and the originals are available somewhere, I'm fine with it. See also, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Robotic Edition.

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Corporations spend vast amounts of money to control human behavior. Consumers need to learn to strategize. For instance, if corporations start surveilling my reading habits, I change my borrowing habits to confuse the data.

Libraries pay for books. It's a good system, you should consider it