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I present to you a blatant violation of copyright
by Acidus at 10:50 am EDT, Jul 13, 2005 |
I present to you a blatant violation of copyright The full-text to the book the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon. As the book is one of my favorites, I notified the publisher about three months or so ago. Apparently they don’t care that someone just posted the entire content to their books, complete with copied illustrations.
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RE: I present to you a blatant violation of copyright
by Jamie at 1:33 pm EDT, Jul 13, 2005 |
Acidus wrote: I present to you a blatant violation of copyright The full-text to the book the curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon. As the book is one of my favorites, I notified the publisher about three months or so ago. Apparently they don’t care that someone just posted the entire content to their books, complete with copied illustrations.
Why do people advocate open source software; but posting text of a book is bad? If people should write and distribute software for free, people should write and distribute books, magazines, television programming, etc, for free as well. |
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RE: I present to you a blatant violation of copyright
by bmitchell at 3:01 pm EDT, Jul 13, 2005 |
ibenez wrote: Why do people advocate open source software; but posting text of a book is bad? If people should write and distribute software for free, people should write and distribute books, magazines, television programming, etc, for free as well.
When you write opensource software, you are taking a work you created and explicitly deciding to release it to the public. It is your work, you are free to make the decision about how it is distributed. When you write a work of text (or video, television, etc) and it is posted somewhere without your permission, they have robbed you of your ability to control distribution. I think the opensource developers who take the position that all software must be opensource are in the minority; certainly many of them wish to maintain some form of control over their works, just like a book or television program publisher. If they had no interest in control of any kind, they would just release their works as public domain. |
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RE: I present to you a blatant violation of copyright
by Dagmar at 2:54 pm EDT, Jul 14, 2005 |
Why do people advocate open source software; but posting text of a book is bad? If people should write and distribute software for free, people should write and distribute books, magazines, television programming, etc, for free as well.
If you really believe any of this, you should stop smoking pot. It's clearly impacted your ability to observe and identify relevant facts and form rational arguments. |
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RE: I present to you a blatant violation of copyright
by Jamie at 9:22 am EDT, Aug 26, 2005 |
Dagmar wrote: Why do people advocate open source software; but posting text of a book is bad? If people should write and distribute software for free, people should write and distribute books, magazines, television programming, etc, for free as well.
If you really believe any of this, you should stop smoking pot. It's clearly impacted your ability to observe and identify relevant facts and form rational arguments.
Hhaa... dude that was funny ; even moreso after that last bong toke. |
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