Thanks for the comments! I suppose you don't believe file sharing is "hindering market development and business model innovation". Why would file sharing using a public digital library cause those kind of effects? Do you consider the ordinary libraries to hinder innovation as well?

I'd say it's the other way around: the digital libraries we propose would make it a lot easier for artists and small record companies to experiment with marketing strategies and so on. The Left Party doesn't care much for planned economies, and this proposal is in line with that: it aims at creating better economic conditions for people doing film & music, not planning band economy from above.

There's also a strategic point to be made here: A lot of the innovation we see today has been forced into DRM schemes by the media corporations. That's what's stopping innovation and freedom today. Digital libraries is a way to establish free solutions - as in beer and as in freedom - as the practice to beat.