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"The Perfect Library"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Hart)
Sun Jan 2 17:55:25 2005
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:19:14 -0800
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[Apologies for cross-posting]
Found in The Hindu, Madras's leading newspaper:
In a brilliant, scintillating new book called The Anarchist in the
Library by Siva Vaidyanathan (a rising young academic star who teaches
at New York University) which looks at "how the clash between freedom
and control is hacking the real world and crashing the system", you
learn that the library is the biggest threat to commercial information
systems and content industries because libraries are leaks in the
information economy. "The perfect library", writes Vaidyanathan,
"would offer you access to any text, song, film, image, or video game.
It would be easy, convenient and free. The perfect library would be
built and stocked by volunteers who donated their time, labour,
creativity and passion."
