• Bryan Bishop’s CES Summit 2019 talk “Knowledge Aggregation & Propagation” was shared (YouTube link BErsLhDlvfQ) and discussed in the context of librarians’ historical failure to resist restrictive copyright regimes.  
• Ethan Heilman argued that librarians have been systematically defunded and politically neutered, leaving no organized force to fulfill the societal role once played by libraries; Sci-Hub and similar ad-hoc efforts now fill the vacuum.  
• Participants explored radical library models: a “quid-pro-quo” repository where access is granted only to those who contribute their own writings, and a VR “crowd-reading” concept in which unlimited users simultaneously view a single virtual book to circumvent artificial scarcity.  
• Current library e-book licensing was condemned for DRM that imitates physical scarcity (limited “check-outs,” expiring licenses, browser-based crippled readers), with Macmillan’s internal policy document cited as an example of publisher hostility.  
• The GNU essay “The Danger of E-books” and a Hacker News thread on publisher-library conflicts were referenced to illustrate how digital lending restrictions erode traditional library freedoms.  
• A side debate considered whether projecting or VR-displaying a physical book constitutes “public performance” under copyright, with analogies to movie-performance licensing and the legality of group reading in physical library spaces.  
• Links to the open “fatcat” scholarly-paper wiki (guide.fatcat.wiki) and the CRISPR Journal issue on germline editing were circulated, framing the day’s information-access concerns within broader transhumanist and bioethics discourse.  
• Kerry Macintosh’s article opposing a moratorium on human germline editing was highlighted: she argues bans risk permanence, stifle safety research, and stigmatize edited children; regulation should focus solely on safety and efficacy, not therapy-vs-enhancement distinctions.  
• A related Santa Clara Law paper contended that restricting IVF because of elevated birth-defect risk is itself eugenic, since it denies reproductive technologies to disabled persons.  
• ADS (likely NASA’s Astrophysics Data System) announced a forthcoming lightweight, JavaScript-free search interface after sustained user lobbying, noted as a small victory for open, low-barrier access to scientific literature.