Re: Background on Firefox setting Digital Rights Management (DRM) Content with Google Widevine

On 28 Aug 2023 at 9:15:48 PM, The Real Bev <[email protected]> wrote:

>>>    If we didn't have libraries then I'm sure they'd be banned by a
>>> consortium of greedy media companies. My local library can buy
>>> a copy of a movie and loan it out, which is perfectly legal with
>>> copyrighted material. Unfortunately, most of the US doesn't have
>>> good local libraries that can afford to stock a wide selection
>>> of DVDS. 
> 
> BUT some/many/most/all local libraries can request materials from other 
> libraries.  It may take a while, but it's possible.  Our library loans 
> passes to State Parks, hotspots, chromebooks, e-books and other stuff 
> that I don't know about in addition to books, DVDs and CDs.

There is also the world-renown free public Internet library, whose goal,
based on what they write, it to make every book possible available to you.
                   https://openlibrary.org/
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Cheers, Quellen