Skunkworks

Read something interesting last week. Was about an analogy between public libraries and the websites which are providing access to audio or video files. The analogy was that according to the way RIAA is opening lawsuits against this kind of sites, also the public libraries should be sued for distributing books.
Obviously the main difference between books and files is that only one person has access to that book. That book is not available in the library if somebody borrowed the book already.
Now, I know that DRM is evil, but maybe a possible compromise would be to create a DRM which will allow “borrowing” the files and then after a period of time automatically “de – borrow ” the files.
I know that every DRM scheme is going to be crack sooner or later, but maybe if you can get from every borrower something like 1 percent of the sales price for that particular file, the amount would be small enough and most of the persons will pay it.
You can add something to the scheme and allow a file borrowed to be sold if the borrower wants it.
Is the old shareware scheme but with a small twist
I think that this is where iTunes, Sony store and the others should go.
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