[doozy]

The public library doesn't seem to care about your theories.

They've been lending books, mags, cds, movies, etc. for longer than I've been alive

[wmf]

And the first-sale doctrine is why libraries are legal. (I imagine that book publishers once waged an MPAA-style war against libraries.) But libraries really have nothing to do with P2P piracy.

[xj9]

That's not the same as building a publishing operation and creating new copies of the items in their catalog for anyone who wants one. Lending doesn't create new copies.

Personally, I think IP is nonsense, but a lot of people disagree with me.