> With digital, literally everything is an infringing act of copying[0], so any rule of how many copies can be made (e.g. "one to one") needs full-supply-chain enforcement. It'd be very easy to cheat the CDL system without even generating any evidence that cheating had happened.
The inability to generate evidence is not any kind of distinction. Anybody can go to the library, borrow a physical book, take it home and scan it into their computer. They can print out a physical copy and put it on their bookshelf. They can upload the scan to an offshore piracy website via Tor and nobody has any way to know who they are.
People pay for books because they want authors to keep writing books, not because nobody has figured out how to anonymously distribute content over the internet.
> What we actually need to fix libraries' ebook programs is collective bargaining and compulsory licensing programs. We already have this for radio: there's a part of the copyright office that decides how many fractions of a penny to charge a radio station every time they play a song, and as a result, radio stations can play whatever
The record labels used this to essentially destroy internet radio by making the compulsory fees uneconomically high so they could turn Spotify et al into the "Netflix of music" because the fees bankrupt most anyone who doesn't enter into a separate agreement with the labels. And then independent music services can't play small unsigned artists because it's uneconomical to negotiate with them individually and also uneconomical to pay the compulsory licensing fees if you don't. And large radio stations have to cut deals with them that cause the thing where "iHeartRadio" (formerly known as Clear Channel) only plays the five songs the labels want them to (essentially payola, but now you're bankrupt if you don't take the deal).
The inability to generate evidence is not any kind of distinction. Anybody can go to the library, borrow a physical book, take it home and scan it into their computer. They can print out a physical copy and put it on their bookshelf. They can upload the scan to an offshore piracy website via Tor and nobody has any way to know who they are.
People pay for books because they want authors to keep writing books, not because nobody has figured out how to anonymously distribute content over the internet.
> What we actually need to fix libraries' ebook programs is collective bargaining and compulsory licensing programs. We already have this for radio: there's a part of the copyright office that decides how many fractions of a penny to charge a radio station every time they play a song, and as a result, radio stations can play whatever
The record labels used this to essentially destroy internet radio by making the compulsory fees uneconomically high so they could turn Spotify et al into the "Netflix of music" because the fees bankrupt most anyone who doesn't enter into a separate agreement with the labels. And then independent music services can't play small unsigned artists because it's uneconomical to negotiate with them individually and also uneconomical to pay the compulsory licensing fees if you don't. And large radio stations have to cut deals with them that cause the thing where "iHeartRadio" (formerly known as Clear Channel) only plays the five songs the labels want them to (essentially payola, but now you're bankrupt if you don't take the deal).
The thing IA was doing seems better.