Hi(gh)!

On 29.03.2015 10:05, Stephen wrote:

> Libraries?
> The main library where I live has turned itself into an internet cafe.
> And they keep selling off their books.
>

Internet café... trading quality literature for second- and third-class 
content snippets, ignorant bulletin board rants, conspiracy loony 
propaganda and Chick gospel tracts! Poor, poor world!

I think copyrights on books should expire 20 years after publication (at 
least with maps, it's this way in Germany - they are counted for 
whatever reason as databases, which may be copied freely 15 years after 
initial publication!), not 50, 70 or 100 years after the author's death 
- then we could drastically improve the Internet's content - let alone 
full-text searching and all those features which come with digitalizing!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

Now playing: Kriegstanz [War Dance] (Heinz-Rudolf Kunze)

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