Will no digital rights kill libraries?

This morning I downloaded the new radiohead album. It’s available directly from the band. You can get it for free or pay as much as you like. And it comes with no digital rights attached. That is, you can copy and distribute the album any way you want. For the sake of argument, suppose that in the near future this is the way that everything libraries now lend will be distributed. What will we do?

Seth

2 Responses to “Will no digital rights kill libraries?”

  1. shusher Says:

    We let people use our computers to download the album (book etc) and burn it to a disc!!

    Or, we could download it for them and lend it?

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