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This kind of shit should make every American demand legislative action to protect us from PE firms *and* "AI" decision making. Taken from a long nostr:npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 thread: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110837352708868589
nostr:npub19p5p8m0m9ygmswn38f57f7lnrz0fpkv8x9t47r4hkqhh5thud6uqdww0v0 so, sure, we need to replace the awkward library DRM with a publicly funded awkward library DRM, so that libraries can continue with their important work of dribbling out little crumbs of information for free to the poors, but not too many or too fast because that would hurt authors and publishers and we can’t have that
nostr:npub1dvdcupztwzszz8u0ld9ptuf78jaqd43mhsfwf2d8ezwhz6tz2z0shxh0ph If you bothered to learn about libraries, you'd know that income doesn't correlate to library usage the way you're suggesting. And a PEW study found higher income people were more likely to check out print books and use apps, while lower income people are more likely to get help from a librarian, and use the library to sit and read or access media. A PE firm taking money out of libraries hurts communities in wholly different ways that have little to do with publishers getting paid.
nostr:npub1dvdcupztwzszz8u0ld9ptuf78jaqd43mhsfwf2d8ezwhz6tz2z0shxh0ph except for the vast majority of authors, the money their books earn from library lending is hugely important. They shouldn't have to write for "passion and exposure" just because some capitalists are strip mining a company. I'd rather keep libraries the gold standard than concede and make writing an even more untenable pursuit for 99% of authors.
Importantly, Overdrive should be rendered valueless _immediately_, so that corporate raiders KKR (of Toys R' Us fame) can't profit from their enshittification.