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

On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 21:46:56 +0100, Quellen <[email protected]>
wrote:

>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.=20
>>=20
>> BUT some/many/most/all local libraries can request materials from =
other=20
>> libraries.  It may take a while, but it's possible.  Our library loans=
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>> passes to State Parks, hotspots, chromebooks, e-books and other stuff=20
>> 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/


I just tried that. It turns out that it's useless to me, for three
reasons:

1. I looked for a couple of well-known books. They didn't have them.

2. When I found one, the book displays on my desktop's screen. That's
not what I want. I want a kindle book that I can read on my phone.

3. It says "Borrow ends at 8:06am." I read pretty fast, but an hour
isn't enough.=20