Those are usually incredibly expensive licenses bought from the publisher.
So I was right; this does boil all the way down to “the pissy little capitalist pig publishing houses aren’t getting their kickback so now they’re tantruming”. Fuck it; I’m going back to full-scale pirating anything that wasn’t independently produced and published.
Mostly no. Those are usually incredibly expensive licenses bought from the publisher. It does put digital interlibrary loan in a weird spot, though.
So I was right; this does boil all the way down to “the pissy little capitalist pig publishing houses aren’t getting their kickback so now they’re tantruming”. Fuck it; I’m going back to full-scale pirating anything that wasn’t independently produced and published.
Yup, that’s exactly right!