This link has been bookmarked by 5 people . It was first bookmarked on 01 Nov 2009, by Will Richardson.
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Fran BullingtonFree download of Cory Doctorow's book and his rant on copyright and ebook readers - excellent!
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H Songhaicopyright, eBooks, eBook sellers
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ebook publishers don't respect copyright law, and they don't believe in your right to own property. Instead, they say that when you "buy" an ebook, you're really only licensing that book, and that copyright law is superseded by the thousands of farcical, abusive words in the license agreement you click through on the way to sealing the deal. (Of course, the button on their website says, "Buy this book" and they talk about "Ebook sales" at conferences -- no one says, "License this book for your Kindle" or "Total licenses of ebooks are up from 0.00001% of all publishing to 0.0001% of all publishing, a 100-fold increase!")
I say to hell with them. You bought it, you own it. I believe in copyright law's guarantee of ownership in your books.
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Will Richardson"Why am I doing this? Because my problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity (thanks, @timoreilly for this awesome aphorism). Because free ebooks sell print books. Because I copied my ass off when I was 17 and grew up to spend practically every discretionary cent I have on books when I became an adult. Because I can't stop you from sharing it (zeroes and ones aren't ever going to get harder to copy); and because readers have shared the books they loved forever; so I might as well enlist you to the cause."
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