The vernacular text was there all along, but no one had spent the time or energy to devise a means by which it could be accessed. I'm sure that other less technical and, perhaps, much more complex problems will arise as time passes. At this point, however, I think it's clear that we have to become more proactive in our search for solutions, and this, of course, means research. Second, university librarians ought to renew their commitment to intellectual freedom and worry less about their role as copyright cops. In such a situation libraries could conceivably end up as mere retail outlets for information vendors.
Someone pays for the wires and the network connections.
Moreover, the vast majority of useful information now on the Net was put there by unpaid volunteers. A second issue relating to intellectual freedom is the struggle between those who wish to control information and those who feel that information is a right. Efforts to censor the Internet have been, by and large, unsuccessful. But the struggle is constant. This is to say that institutions feel they have the obligation to make sure that information presented by the users of their facilities is accurate and does give the appearance of being institutional policy.