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Not that I believe for one second that he's got the skill or the balls to try what he's talking about, but if he does, he could end up actually being arrested for it. (At which point, he can prove what a brave revolutionary he is by taking the first plea bargain offered, and turn over his customer list to the prosecutors.) |
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09-27-2012, 05:47 PM | #18 |
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Why should the public's tax dollars be spent investigating something that can't be prosecuted?
If you don't want other people to have the protection of the law regarding your actions, it's hypocrisy to expect the law to protect you from other people's actions. Hyporcisy, or psychosis. |
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However, your suggestion about what he should do if arrested is even more illogical and bizarre; his logical approach would be total non-cooperation, ie the exact opposite of your suggestions. |
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But if he did manage to get arrested for criminal copyright infringment, I'd expect he'd cave at the first opportunity, logical or not. He's no martyr, no matter how much he wishes he was. |
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The thing about the site mentioned is that it already exists, but we fail to accept its reality.
Millions of ebooks have been bought in the last decade, I suspect that millions have been deleted as well, this is a crime against knowledge as you well know. It is in our nature to maintain the knowledgebase. If the sites TOS required you to click a button saying that you were the original purchaser of the book that you are uploading I think that would clear up any confusion in the courts. Not that I would ever attend court, except to debate the nature of the court system itself... I'm fairly certain that the site will require an active connection to the site itself, cloud reading. That way it is easy to ensure that only one reader is reading the book at a time. I am not sure why malware writers would want to get involved except perhaps by making their own copycat site with ads (AKA googlebooks). |
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Is there some part of "I don't believe he'll ever even try" that indicates I think he'll try? In all seriousness, dude, I gotta ask: What kind of drugs are you on? Seriously, man, you smoke too much of it.
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What you've missed is that Giggles has no clue what he's talking about, and what it would take to create such a site. It's inconceivable to me that he's ever made more than minimum wage, if he's ever held down a job at all, and there's no way in hell he's go tthe money to buy the expertise, and it's clear he doesn't have it himself. He doesn't understand why anyone would break in to a web site, while I've got several megabytes a day of web server logs of people trying to do just that. He believes that if he's arrested, it's up to him whether or not to go to court, and he clearly has no idea what the law says. Given Mobilereads sensitivity to piracy, I'm often amazed that Giggles hasn't been tossed for good for his open advocacy of it. The joke you've missed is Giggles. |
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Why is it that Giggleton's half-baked pseudo-anarchist ramblings always ultimately cause this type of reaction from those who think copyright law was handed down on Mount Sinai? |
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perhaps I am shifting the goalpost slightly here, but there is at least one publisher that makes all of its books available to read online:
http://www.openbookpublishers.com/ sadly, it does not work on an ereader (at least not on mine), but though you cannot download anything for free, you can read the whole book online if you wish. Granted, in these cases authors are academics who earn their crust in other way, but at least these are not of the types that try to make a buck (or substantially more) by cutting it into the "principle of" textbooks markets. At least in academia, research production should be made available for free! |
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So what you are saying, I think, is your site would make it so you would only be allowed to read from your computer while connected to the site/your account? vs. downloading the book? That makes more sense and would appear on the surface to be 'more legal' (or course I really have no idea to the legality), but not sure I'd want to be sitting at my computer to read a novel.
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