Well, my point wasn't really related to the price. It's more about cost:benefit, or perhaps low hanging fruit. The cops tell us to lock our doors, not because locks keep out serious criminals, but because it puts a tiny hurdle in front of the lazy opportunist criminals.
Seeing the bootlegs so high up in the page rank is what makes it interesting, to me. It's so _easy_ to steal. That's what brings the subject so much closer to conversations about "the commons" or the public good. At what point does ubiquity _force_ membership in the commons? Arlo Barnes wrote at 04/18/2013 12:19 PM: > But it sounds like it is out of your price range, at least for now. The > author (nor the > publisher<http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/reminder-why-theres-no-tipjar.html>) > gets no money from you checking the book out of the library, so what are > they losing from you pirating the book? Not that I am suggesting that is > what you *should* do - it is an individual decision, after all - but I > always find it interesting what people consider their 'boundary' and why. -- =><= glen e. p. ropella Now may I present to you the basilisk? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
