Dave Cross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
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*>I disagree. IMO, posting a link to site containing pirate copies of books
*>_is_ advocating piracy. YMMV.
In a world that advocates Napster, this is no different. Someone buys a
copy of the book, scans it in and shares it with the world. Outrage by the
author is not any different than outrage by a musical artist.
There was an interesting interview with Bill Joy at the P2P conference
iirc that discussed this sort of piracy and Joy specifically talked about
books being the most worrisome part of this type of activity/technology.
The royalties are so small that I doubt if it would make any major
difference in anyones bank account for the people who buy books will still
buy them and the people that don't just might go out and purchase a copy.
You write a book because you think there is something you know that others
might benefit from as noone gets rich in this business. Why, I think
Jarkko and I went to dinner once on his royalty cheque from ORA.
You can't expect to steal music and then bitch about how someone is
stealing copies of your book on line.
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