Awesome! Thanks for the laugh
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Thornton
From: boss@random-noise-publishing.web
To: <All employees>
Publishing Policy For Electronic Books ("e-books")
<snip>
Geography and the World-Wide Web:
Using the intertubes, customers can access e-books from anywhere in the world.
This means that customers from countries where we have the rights could buy
books from someone else. We will block this, but customers can still travel
here to buy e-books locally if they want. Although I've never been abroad, all
the foreigners that I've met enjoy travelling, so this should suit them!
<snip>
Piracy:
As there is no copyright in international waters, there are a growing number of
"pirates" who are buying e-books from on-board ship. These can then flow
through the intertubes in torrents. This kind of copying kills our profits,
and is therefore murder - we will be lobbying for the death penalty.
In summary, our policy is to release selected new titles across the whole of
some countries, often at less than twice the price of a paper copy - enhanced
with DRM to provide security against use.
Sergeant-Major D. Zaster, CEO
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Loved these two parts, especially the traveling one (very deep, that one!)
And about those pirates, there have been radio pirates here, that actually were on a ship because they weren't allowed to broadcast on Dutch soil
