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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
You do realize you just came within a hair's breadth of describing the Kindle system, don't you? I believe that's exactly what Amazon is trying to do, and judging from the customer buy-in, it seems to be working.
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Yes, and I take a dim view of the Kindle for exactly those reasons. That said, the Kindle also does mobipocket and you can load all manner of content on it yourself.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I disagree there. I do not have any right, divine or otherwise, to demand a creator allow me to buy, borrow or take his creation. It is the creator's right to bestow access to others, or to lock his creation away, or to destroy it three minutes after he's finished it.
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Steve, maybe I misunderstand or maybe you do, but I was talking about copyright eventually expiring and ideas/books/content entering the public domain. This as far as I know concerns only published works (I think - IANAL). I view this as a good thing.
An interesting not entirely unrelated quote:
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In the world of books, the indefinite extension of copyright has had a perverse effect. It has created a vast collection of works that have been abandoned by publishers, a continent of books left permanently in the dark. In most cases, the original publisher simply doesn't find it profitable to keep these books in print. In other cases, the publishing company doesn't know whether it even owns the work, since author contracts in the past were not as explicit as they are now. The size of this abandoned library is shocking: about 75 percent of all books in the world's libraries are orphaned. Only about 15 percent of all books are in the public domain. A luckier 10 percent are still in print. The rest, the bulk of our universal library, is dark.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/ma...pagewanted=all