in older times it was the book that cost money, not the material.
I do agree that the library is a good idea, i just reasoned on rental of games and by extrapolation, yes it seems contrary to the whole idea of copyright to have rental places. It's just a reflexion not my opinion.
My opinion is that artist should be paid for performing in concerts hall or on TV shows and movies should base their revenue on movies and the rights of the TV showings.... but once a song was on the radio or a movie on TV... why is it illegal to share when you could have just as well recorded it (especially when digital VCRs do it for you now) Nobody frowned before the digital age if you didn't make a profit of it.
Software is entirely different though... Perhaps as you say digital downloar or OnLive systems will be the future... instead of using a program, you open a window that runs the progam on a server? certainly doable and you could be charged per usage time... (would make professional software affordable to regular people too).
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