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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
On the contrary, it seems SLJ has provoked a great deal of thought.
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He did nothing of the sort. He's just parroting the publishers' arguments.
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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
In this particular thread, you actually come off as more hell-bent than SLJ. I know you want to fight the idea of restrictions (as do I), but your past couple of posts have had increasingly anti-SLJ tones rather than anti-restriction tones.
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I'm just having fun, since SJL is such an easy target. Come on, the guy created a thread to say he has stopped writing because some of his books were being illegally downloaded. If that isn't hysterical, I don't know what it is. Being anti-SJL is just irresistible for me.
I wonder what
Neil Gaiman would say if people pirated his books
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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
Are you so sure that simply because someone doesn't agree with the EFF that their fiction cannot be enjoyable in some way? Your last few comments almost make it sound like you wouldn't read an author with whom you disagree. If that is accurate, what is the point in provoking thoughts you have already had?
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If that were true, I wouldn't enjoy Harlan Ellison's books (who writes marvelous fiction, despite being an a**).
But I don't want to read scifi by a whiny guy who can only spew forth the conventional wisdom. Scifi authors are supposed to be forward-thinking (well, at least that's how I view the issue - YMMV).
Anyway, I'm rather optimistic about the DRM issue. After a few years and a lot waste (of time and money), I think publishers will realize their anti-piracy efforts are harming their bottom-line, and we'll see a change.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
That's why there were no digital copies of books floating around the internet before Peanut Press. The alt.binaries newsgroups never had books.
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I'll do a Sheldon here, but am I detecting sarcasm?