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.
doesnt this put in jeopardy all the libraries that do digital checkout? my local library system does this.
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!