Also, the ship is insured. So other than increased premiums (and the sailors, who the companies treat as expendable), the monetary risk to the shipper isn't that great.
Running a P2P hub would presumably be barred under the library's terms of service. But, assuming the terms permit surfing the web (which presumably our priest was doing), then he's doing nothing wrong. If a library doesn't have rules against taking out 10,000 books at once, you could take out all those books. It's not fair to other members of the public who might not get their share of the public resource, but public resources are not always distributed fairly.
If the library doesn't choose to ban an activity, then it is allowed. As has been pointed out here, these are services provided by the public. But I'm sure a savvy librarian would be blocking this sort of abuse.
Over at the french version of newsbot, the lead story all day has been "Playboy : le site internet deshabille les employees de Wal-Mart" (You don't need to understand French to follow that one).
And it's accompanied by a big photo of... Donald Rumsfeld.
Google's algorithm is clearly much, much better.
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Also, the ship is insured. So other than increased premiums (and the sailors, who the companies treat as expendable), the monetary risk to the shipper isn't that great.
Theoretically a text-only reader should include unicode, right?
Running a P2P hub would presumably be barred under the library's terms of service. But, assuming the terms permit surfing the web (which presumably our priest was doing), then he's doing nothing wrong. If a library doesn't have rules against taking out 10,000 books at once, you could take out all those books. It's not fair to other members of the public who might not get their share of the public resource, but public resources are not always distributed fairly.
If the library doesn't choose to ban an activity, then it is allowed. As has been pointed out here, these are services provided by the public. But I'm sure a savvy librarian would be blocking this sort of abuse.
Over at the french version of newsbot, the lead story all day has been "Playboy : le site internet deshabille les employees de Wal-Mart" (You don't need to understand French to follow that one). And it's accompanied by a big photo of... Donald Rumsfeld. Google's algorithm is clearly much, much better.