Re: eBook security

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Danny Stone <wallstone-qR/[email protected]> wrote:
> Off-topic, but related, and worth mentioning
>
>  I'd like to shoot whoever decided that a copyright infringer should be
>  called a pirate. By old-school definitions, a pirate was someone who
>  stole other peoples' stuff and made money with it. You know, like China
>  does with our software, music, and movies by spades of factors higher
>  than all the US-based P2P downloaders combined.
>
>  Infringer: Thief? Yes. Pirate? No. (Okay, climbing off soap-box....)
>
>  Danny Stone

Hi Danny,

I'd like to point out that pirates weren't always the bad guys. By
allowing 'entrepreneurial types' to resell slaving ships that they
captured under letters of marque, the British effectively shut slavery
down in much of the world by making it economically nonviable.

Quite what the parallels are to copyright infringement are, I really
don't know :)

Best regards, Andrew

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Andrew Boyd
http://onblogging.com.au

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