alt Hacker NewsNot going to claim anything regarding Anna’s Archive’s legitimacy, but what do libraries look like in the future? We’re just going to give up and say, first sale was great while we had it, but digital makes it obsolete? When you die, screw donating your collection of “licenses” to somewhere productive; those contracts died with you? Everything is streaming, so you never purchased anything anyway?
It’s crazy to me that two decades after the iTunes Store the trade and resale of digital goods isn’t protected by law.
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Well, that's where digital goods differ from physical goods. But it's also why piracy != theft.
Are you in the United States? Many libraries loan digital goods, e.g., books, music, movies, and even software.
> It’s crazy to me that two decades after the iTunes Store the trade and resale of digital goods isn’t protected by law.
You aren't buying a digital good, you're buying a limited license to use that digital good.
This right here is why I either (1) still buy physical media [my preference], or (2) make sure all digital media I purchased is DRM free. With my physical media, I digitize it, then store the media for any future use.
We need to create libraries like Anna's Archive that are impossible to take down.
Something like content addressed storage spread across many shards running locally that are linked together over Tor.
I work at a nonprofit and the board is largely university librarians. I am asking all of them how have the behavior of their patrons changed in the last five years. How has usage of their subscribed resources changed in the age of AI. They don't share much, but their facial expressions and silence share more than they mean them to. Some universities have cut staff, or reclassified them so that they won't receive benefits.