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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
People often refer to DRMed books as diseased or infected or infested. This is an analogy that I cannot see, diseases and infestations spread, infections get better or worse. DRM doesn't seem to do this. It is a nuisance I agree in many cases. My feeling is that they are feeling guilty about the act itself and attempting to glorify it which should just make me feel sorry but I get irritated. Was mostly referring to another analogy run amok.
I am pretty sure it is not that illegal to pirate books etc. in a lot of developing countries, although I don't think of Korea as being terribly poor. Perhaps I am wrong in that. Lots of poor people and exploitation, but compared to many countries not that badly off. Compared to Canada, the Koreans I know and those I have worked for and with tell me that Korea is better in most ways. The North American education system is seen as far superior by them only in the credentials it supplies and how they are recognized. This is all hearsay on my part.
As to pirating books being the only thing that allowed them to go to Cambridge. Hmmmm.... Cost of books VS cost of tuition. Which costs many times more. Doesn't quite hold up to scrutiny but I haven't read the book.
Helen
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Before the 1980s, the period Chang grew up, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. It is only in the last twenty years that South Korea has become a high income country. Chang remarks that from the year he was born (1963) to the time the book was written (mid 2000s) per capita income in South Korea grew 14 times, which is about the amount per capita income grew in Great Britain from 1800-2000. He entered Cambridge in 1982 on a scholarship.