Re: aaaaarg lawsuit digest #ANON

2016-01-15 Thread Carsten Agger
Den 14-01-2016 kl. 19:58 skrev morlockel...@yahoo.com: So you will keep and feed your own poet in your basement? Or is he going to be paid by the enlightened government? Or we'll just have to do with: - the already existing poetry? - bad poetry by Uber drivers written in their spare time? -

Re: aaaaarg lawsuit digest #ANON

2016-01-15 Thread Alex Foti
if i can add my zero bitcoin to this heated debate, i download everything in epub for free - since i got half unemployed couldn't afford the non/fiction i wanted to read anyway. copyright is not the right way to either spread knowledge or provide for authors' livelihoods - my crude

Re: aaaaarg lawsuit digest #ANON

2016-01-14 Thread tomislav medak
Arg complied with the take-down request for the scan of the book in question. It was after a while re-upped and again taken down. For the total time it was up, it was downloaded a small number of times, nothing that would, even if each download would convert into a lost sale,

Re: aaaaarg lawsuit digest #ANON

2016-01-14 Thread Balazs Bodo
piece. Cheers b.- -Original Message- From: nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org [mailto:nettime-l-boun...@mail.kein.org] On Behalf Of morlockel...@yahoo.com Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 7:23 PM To: nettim...@kein.org Subject: Re: arg lawsuit digest #ANON Unfortunately, the current

Re: aaaaarg lawsuit digest #ANON

2016-01-14 Thread Storm Harding
> So you will keep and feed your own poet in your basement? > > Or is he going to be paid by the enlightened government? > > Or we'll just have to do with: > > - the already existing poetry? > - bad poetry by Uber drivers written in their spare time? > - free propaganda poetry funded by various

Re: aaaaarg lawsuit digest #ANON

2016-01-14 Thread morlockelloi
So you will keep and feed your own poet in your basement? Or is he going to be paid by the enlightened government? Or we'll just have to do with: - the already existing poetry? - bad poetry by Uber drivers written in their spare time? - free propaganda poetry funded by various parties? Pick

Re: aaaaarg lawsuit digest #ANON

2016-01-12 Thread morlockelloi
This reminds of sentiments of small software publishers in the 90s (but they used to express themselves in more colorful ways.) Ease of copying killed the cottage software industry (only the big 5 survived), and it's only now slightly recovering due to proprietary appstore/device platforms.