From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 14:46:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5083137B720 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 16930 invoked by uid 100); 28 Mar 2001 22:46:36 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15042.27084.90225.274729@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:46:36 -0600 To: "Dr Nancy's Sweetie" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ok, try this one: www.t13.org In-Reply-To: <17510.985812922@copland.rowan.edu> References: <17510.985812922@copland.rowan.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dr Nancy's Sweetie types: > I thought this was a bit over the top until I read comments from a > spokeswoman for a publisher's assocation. She explained that they've been > lobbying Congress to limit lending libraries, but few Congressmen want to > be seen as being against libraries. Ideally, she explained, libraries > would have to charge a fee to anyone who checked out a book, and would > only be allowed to stock old books. What's more, only the person who > checked out a book would be allowed to read it (though she granted that > this would be difficult to enforce as long as books are still printed on > paper). Do you have a reference for this? I knew that large publishers were attacking libraries access to new technology, but this takes things to new extremes. Of course, it's the same direction they've been pushing things for most of the last century. Bleah, http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message