• diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Mostly no. Those are usually incredibly expensive licenses bought from the publisher. It does put digital interlibrary loan in a weird spot, though.

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      2 months ago

      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.