On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Lawnun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > _Everytime_ a video is taken down, God kills a kitten? Hyperbole aside,
It was meant to be - it's a meme. > targeted are not capturing 'discrete slices and slivers'--as you > suggest--but entire episodes of a given work. I would tend to agree for pragmatic reasons. But in this instance, it's more these slices I'm talking about and in some ways they are as valuable as entire works. > Making a copy of a work in full isn't anymore enriching to the world than is > stealing a book from a store. That hasn't, and isn't likely to change, no > matter how revolutionary the new technology is. Again, this is open to discussion. How one is a physical good and one is virtual and a copy does not destroy the original yada yada yada. > whether it's outserved its purpose (it hasn't), but to what end it can be > amended and adapted to meet the changing needs of the times. A good question does arise. Has it been perverted to serve a purpose it was not intended to originally serve? -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org
