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The Sweden Democrats are another matter. I have found no news reports of anyone sneaking into a meeting and hearing neo nazi ideology. I have found 2 news stories where someone did sneak into party meetings. In the first, the reporter overheard racist jokes. In the second, party leader participated in a singalong. Some of the songs were by a white power group. While each story is distasteful, please put them in to perspective. Some of the music I listen to includes rap. This does not make me a cop killing, women beating, thug. And if racist comments make one a neo nazi, then Reverend Jeremiah Wright is a neo nazi. (Look him up.) I'm not saying the party doesn't have racist members; I'm saying there is not enough evidence to label the party itself neo nazi. As for Carl Lunstrom being a neo nazi, I have found no evidence to support the claim. I am beginning to think the label was attached by his political enemies as a way to hurt him. One article I found was on an English language news site based in Sweden. It was a profile of the 4 Pirate Bay defendants. They do not call him a neo nazi, nor even allege it. I have to assume they have more information than I do, and that the label is bogus. And I think I found out what really happened in that "100 neo nazi candidates" story. Here is a second source on the story, in English. I think the whole idea got started when one site found the story in Swedish and used Google to translate. The translation was garbled, and they misunderstood it. That site then reported the garbled story, and everyone on the internet repeated the story without bothering to confirm the accuracy. (This is what Harry did.) |
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Sir Penguin of Edinburgh
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On a related note
Some time back Patricia posted a note a similar to Harry's in a discussion among the moderators. The major difference between the two is that the article Patricia linked to contained links to other information that supported the statements in the article.
In fact, this is what led me to the original article in Swedish about the candidates. I am fairly certain that this site was the one who garbled the translation and is responsible for the whole story. They messed up, yes, but since they are one of the few sites that actually does research and provides links to their sources I am willing to give them a pass on this one. |
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Perhaps it would be better if we asked our Swedish friends here whether the "New Democracy" party in Sweden was regarded as a "mainsteam" political party, or as an extremist group. They are in the best position to know.
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Well, the were not considered as an extremist group at least. It was a real politcal party but some of the members or supporters had more extremist views than other.
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On sites like Sony's, ebooks generally cost more, than for what I can purchase a paper copy elsewhere. Even at $10 in the Kindle store, it is still often more expensive, than a paperback version. I believe the price of ebooks has to be adjusted downward, to reflect the savings to publishers. If this happens, most interested readers would be more likely to pay, than to "pirate." |
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Right idea... though I'd amend it to say that the price only has to be acceptable to consumers, no matter how it accurately reflects savings to publishers, in order to create good sales. Then it's up to the publishers to adjust their internal models to allow them to profit at that price point... something no publisher wants to have to do, but will find they have little choice in the matter.
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Sorry, my statement was more a reflection on the current impact of piracy (minimal) than on the low cost of ebooks. Yes, ebooks could be cheaper, but if pirated stuff was freely and easily available I think most people would choose free over anything that cost more than a dollar.
Don't know where this experience is coming from, unless you're used to buying secondhand books. While there are exceptions, most of the major Kindle books I've seen are consistently cheaper than the paperback from Amazon. And that's before shipping. Don't bother posting examples; those could easily be exceptions, and you claimed "most", and neither of us can prove what the actual % is. |
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I disagree. If they know that downloading the free ebook might be illegal and the eBook is offered in a shop legally for a fair price, then most of the people would buy it. Imho most people don't want do illegal things.
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More to the point, it's not true that DRM can't be cross-platform. Encryption is just an algorithm, and algorithms can be copied between platforms. It's just a matter of translating the procedure into a format that the new platform can understand, and using the algorithm in that platform. It's fairly simple to write a fuction that requests a string from a user and then compares that string to a generated product key, and then querying a website to see if that key has already been registered on a different device. NOTE: I'm not necessarily advocating such a DRM system for e-books. I think watermarking would be sufficient for the publishers' purposes of preventing widespread distribution of works. Watermarking is a form of DRM, because it serves the purpose of discouraging piracy, just like other DRM methods. No DRM method completely precludes piracy altogether. |
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Umm, it wouldn't be illegal. Or rather, it would be illegal, but no one would ever get prosecuted for it because stuff wouldn't have DRM and the industry would be minimizing piracy to a level where it wouldn't hurt their revenues. This gets back to my "accomodation" point and why I don't see how the two sides can reach a solution that will satisfy both parties.
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I think what does encourage people to do things legally is quality control. I have compared several Gutenberg texts to the equivalent texts on Amazon's site, and in most cases, the $1.99 versions of the books far surpass the free versions on Gutenberg, or the $0.99 versions of the Gutenberg texts on Amazon. That's the kind of value people get from professionally-produced media, as opposed to the pirated stuff. (Not that the Gutenberg e-texts are "pirated", of course, since they are out of copyright, but I think the analogy still holds, in terms of the value added.) |
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2. Hmm, let's see. Retyping paper books into digital format would require a lot of work. Almost as if, *gasp*, it could create new job opportunity. "It's beneath publishers to do that" ? Then people will have to do the work themselves, for free. If publishers don't want to participate (by creating incentives for well digitized books, paying for work etc), let them look like greedy bastards. 3. Profit from pirates by setting bounties for high quality ebooks, luring them out of the underground. 4. A lot of classic books are already digitized thanks to projects like Project Gutenberg. |
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I do too, but does such a price point exist for ebooks? We found it for music, but I'm not convinced it exists for ebooks. Authors don't have performance venues to supplement reduced royalties. There are many authors leaving the business *today* because they can't make enough money anymore, even though their writing is just as good as it used to be.
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