Except why shouldn't she grade on what they learn? It's a writing class, and even if Hemingway were taking it, I wouldn't expect him to cruise to an A without putting effort into writing and learning to be an even better writer?

Yes, I haven't been on Slashdot in ages. But I read this article and thought: this is a story Slashdot readers will appreciate.

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.