The irony is very, very thick and not lost on me. If it were fiction, the reader would disrespect the author for using so obvious a connection.
It would be very funny if it was fiction. Alan On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:42 AM, James Finstrom<jfinst...@rhinoequipment.com> wrote: > Am I the onlyone who sees the irony here. An entity who has the > ability to control what you can and can't read and ummm the book 1984 > > On 7/18/09, Alan Dayley <ala...@consultpros.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Austin William >> Wright<diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: >>> It is this one, >>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html >>> >>> Stallman, as usual, is right, even if (I think) for all the wrong >>> reasons. Copyright is something that could not exist in a free society, >>> the only way it can exist is through the coercion of government force, >>> restricting you from doing otherwise lawful things with what you own as >>> your property (In fact, even if there was no private property, >>> government could still enforce intellectual property). Regardless of >>> wither intellectual property should exist, it is of little doubt the >>> power grabs by the government and long copyright terms are hurting the >>> market for authors instead of helping. I don't know if Amazon would >>> still have the right to take back books like they did (without studying >>> property rights a bit more, I suspect 'they do but why would they want >>> to?'), in any case I don't think that, without copyright as it is, they >>> could have pulled it off (no pun intended har har har). At the very >>> most, commercial pressures might have gotten them to do so, but another >>> publisher would step up offering a better alternative, with no >>> artificial hampering of the market by patent or copyright. >>> >>> I think with Washington, DC the way it is right now there is nothing >>> standing in the way of even more copyright expansion (or government in >>> general for that matter), like "database rights" in the European Union >>> or a broad "workright" where you own the "right" to anything you invest >>> time into and all derivatives (like making a copy of a public domain >>> work). >> >> Thanks for finding the reference story. >> >> Alan >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- > James Finstrom > Rhino Equipment Corp. > http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com > Phone: 1-877-RHINO-T1 ~ FAX: +1 (480) 961-1826 > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment > IP: gu...@asterisk.rhinoequipment.com > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
