08-04-2008, 10:52 AM | #46 |
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08-04-2008, 11:13 AM | #47 | |
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08-04-2008, 11:36 AM | #48 | |
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There's almost never anything new to say in these threads. I will note only that very few books that I've seen on the darknet aree available as authorized ebooks, but then again, very few books are available as authorized ebooks at all, so I suppose that doesn't mean much. I don't think book "piracy" is particularly on the rise, however, in the sense that I don't think the amount of activity has changed much over the past 5 years or so. It could start to change now with the Kindle and other "popular" ebook readers, but most people don't go fishing around in the darknet when they want something, so I don't think it's going to change all that much. Just my opinion. |
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08-04-2008, 11:40 AM | #49 | |
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08-04-2008, 11:53 AM | #50 | |
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How do you convince a head-in-the-sand publisher to use the reading public rather than abuse it? Seriously. Look at what Project Gutenberg US has done with their Distributed Proofreading? Why not hire people to do proofreading the same way? Instead of cash outlay, how about payment in kind? For every 200 proofread pages, you get a e-book (possibly the one you are proofing.) Free labor for the publisher, the rest of the public get to buy more titles, and the proofreader gets as much as they would doing their own proofing, with the bonus of more well proofed books to buy. If you don't like the scan, let somebody scan it as well, a la PG. I'd certainly volunteer... |
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08-04-2008, 11:58 AM | #51 | |
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Of course, if you are talking in English you should use the English words with the English meanings, but people who don't have English as mother tongue may be prone to some misunderstanding. In this case I might think that "criminal" is a much stronger word than it is. Last edited by Jellby; 08-04-2008 at 12:57 PM. |
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08-04-2008, 12:02 PM | #52 | |
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08-04-2008, 12:24 PM | #53 | |
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Yes, I suspect this kind of linguistic difference is at the root of many of these debates about the "criminality" of unauthorized ebooks. |
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08-04-2008, 02:06 PM | #54 |
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RIAA admirable? Not!
Harry, I do not approve of piracy but to say that the RIAA's actions have been admirable is like believing that the world is flat instead of round. it is one thing to go after pirates, another thing to blackmail people from a position of strength, which is what the RIAA does.
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08-04-2008, 02:15 PM | #55 | |
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Harry's use of the word "crime" has a tendency to be like waving a red flag at those who see nothing wrong (or perhaps not bad wrong, i.e. criminally wrong) with "illegal" downloading of ebooks when they may already own the pbook version. |
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08-04-2008, 02:19 PM | #56 | |
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The RIAA has not sought to punish criminals but to collect money in large enough quantities from individuals to make people think twice. The problem is that the RIAA does it without proof; it does it by simply threatening to overwhelm you with debt -- kind of like a debtor's prison with the RIAA being the jailer. The RIAA brings no proof to the table, because if it did, it would be much better to turn the evidence over to the legitimate prosecuting authorities -- long jail sentences are a better deterrent than taking money from a 14-year-old who doesn't have any. But the RIAA doesn't turn any evidence over because they do not have any that would stand up in a criminal prosecution. The RIAA abuses the American judicial system because it has the money to do so, not because it is right. |
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08-04-2008, 02:22 PM | #57 |
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Sorry, but in the United States that is not correct, at least not in the sense that the victim has to be a person. In the U.S. there is always one victim: the people in the broad sense. Most times there is also an individual victim. A good example of a victimless crime in the U.S. is consensual prostitution; in this case, the "victim" is the people (broadly speaking), not an individual. Many moral crimes are victimless crimes.
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08-04-2008, 03:02 PM | #58 | |
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08-04-2008, 03:52 PM | #59 | |
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as long as you don't pass them on same goes for movies music etc. |
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