Author Encourages Users to Pirate His Book

kennyc · 10-16-2009, 04:52 PM

Ran across this on slashdot:

(Bad link. sorry)

"What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing “Beginning Ruby”

....

"My reaction to seeing other Apress books getting the free, electronic version treatment is: I’m good with you pirating my book! Now, of course, I can’t actively participate in pirating my book but, heck, it’s around on plenty of “free e-book” sites and on RapidShare."

mtravellerh · 10-16-2009, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennyc

Ran across this on slashdot:

http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/

"What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing “Beginning Ruby”

....

"My reaction to seeing other Apress books getting the free, electronic version treatment is: I’m good with you pirating my book! Now, of course, I can’t actively participate in pirating my book but, heck, it’s around on plenty of “free e-book” sites and on RapidShare."

Your link is cut off. Please change that or remove the link. Thank you!

kennyc · 10-16-2009, 06:57 PM

No I think there may be something wrong with the site. Here's a link to the Slashdot story and it is doing the same thing:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10...irate-His-Book

Superlucky · 10-16-2009, 07:22 PM

I think it's a good idea. I will confess that in the past I have read ebooks that were "shared" by people on the internet. The ones I liked resulted in subsequent purchases of the authors' works.

AnemicOak · 10-16-2009, 08:47 PM

Kenny's link was fine earlier.

kennyc · 10-16-2009, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Superlucky

I think it's a good idea. I will confess that in the past I have read ebooks that were "shared" by people on the internet. The ones I liked resulted in subsequent purchases of the authors' works.

I've not done that with ebooks, but definitely have bought music CD's or MP3s from "samples" etc.

columbus · 10-17-2009, 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennyc

Ran across this on slashdot:

--- link removed ---

"What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing “Beginning Ruby”

....

"My reaction to seeing other Apress books getting the free, electronic version treatment is: I’m good with you pirating my book! Now, of course, I can’t actively participate in pirating my book but, heck, it’s around on plenty of “free e-book” sites and on RapidShare."

This link is redirecting to a page calling itself *the American cancer society* asking for donations!

kennyc · 10-17-2009, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by columbus

This link is redirecting to a page calling itself *the American cancer society* asking for donations!

See above, it was working when I posted it...

I've removed it for now.

zelda_pinwheel · 10-18-2009, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kennyc

See above, it was working when I posted it...

I've removed it for now.

according to this comment by Peter Cooper on the /. page, he modified the link himself :

Quote:

A bad summary makes bad responses

I wrote the piece linked here and the summary on Slashdot is laughably wrong. All the cool Hacker News and Reddit people who read the story.. you're awesome and you really added to the discussion and didn't come out with nonsense saying I'm actively encouraging people to break the law (which, if whoever wrote the summary could comprehend English, is not what I said - I raised a potential method of circumvention as a thought experiment.. "I suspect" does not mean "I think you must").

So if Slashdotters want to be the first to spout nonsense and misquotes on the same day my first kid was born (I'm just getting a few hours sleep after being up a gazillion hours ;-)) then congratulations - some of you succeeded admirably. All the traffic to the site is going to somewhere you can donate to a good cause and earn some actual karma.

(emphasis mine).

10-16-2009, 04:52 PM	#1
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,872 Karma: 118716293 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Author Encourages Users to Pirate His Book Ran across this on slashdot: (Bad link. sorry) "What I’ve Earned (And Learned) From Writing “Beginning Ruby” .... "My reaction to seeing other Apress books getting the free, electronic version treatment is: I’m good with you pirating my book! Now, of course, I can’t actively participate in pirating my book but, heck, it’s around on plenty of “free e-book” sites and on RapidShare." Last edited by kennyc; 10-17-2009 at 06:21 AM.

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10-16-2009, 06:57 PM	#3
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,872 Karma: 118716293 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	No I think there may be something wrong with the site. Here's a link to the Slashdot story and it is doing the same thing: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10...irate-His-Book

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Superlucky Fanatic Posts: 581 Karma: 5952 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: PRS-505, PRS-350	I think it's a good idea. I will confess that in the past I have read ebooks that were "shared" by people on the internet. The ones I liked resulted in subsequent purchases of the authors' works.

10-16-2009, 08:47 PM	#5
AnemicOak Bookaholic Posts: 14,391 Karma: 54969924 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +	Kenny's link was fine earlier.