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> Too late. This whole thread has been pretty offensive!
This thread? The whole idea that we are having this sort of threads on 2009 -stinks-!
The whole damn thing started to stink when the punks from Gemstar destroyed Nuvomedia. It got worse when some deranged dinosaur from Holtzbrinck pulled Tor back from Baen's Webscriptions. And then it got worse still, when Amazon who could have used its mass to force publishing establishment into something sensible, instead came out with the abomination that is Kindle purposefully-incompatible-format company store. And now the bastards are slapping geo-restrictions on everywhere else.
You are offended? Wellcome to the club!
You are worried about pirates? Which do you think has caused more economic damage to creators of content, all of the above, or pirates? When emerging pirate parties all over europe are the only political force in existance that at least tries to push back, to make the copyright and patent legislations into something less insane.
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