In France many public libraries let you rent them for free (or a ridiculously low annual subscription); you take them home, copy them, return them, and it costs nothing.

And it is legal to do so ! We pay the "copie privé" tax for that reason.

Some of ours in the US even have video games. The one I go to even has tools and all sorts of other interesting physical objects. People really need to visit their libraries, they’re already paying for it via taxes.

Same with USA. I was surprised at the variety of platforms supported.

Hmm, public DVDs I know often have read errors.

but you trust a random torrent upload more?

at least with the library DVDs I can be reasonably certain the weird artifact is not embedded malware, just scratches

What? Rent linux iso:s for free? Good deal!