Re: A new device. Be still, my heart

> 1a. Re: A new device. Be still, my heart.
>     Posted by: "Chris" [email protected] smithvex
>
> How dare you ask for something so unreasonable!!!!
>
> Haven't you heard???
>
> "We reject the view that copyright owners and their licensees are
> required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative
> works. No other product or service providers are held to such
> lofty standards. No one expects computers or other electronics
> devices to work properly in perpetuity, and there is no reason
> that any particular mode of distributing copyrighted works should
> be required to do so."
>
>   - Steven Metalitz at
> http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2008/answers/7_10_responses/kasunic- 
> letter-re-questions-re-authentication-servers.pdf
>   - page 4
>   - in response to "Questions related to authentication servers" at
>   http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2008/questions/index.html

Yep, that got a reaction.

"No other product or service providers are held to such lofty  
standards." Then a lot of silly-billy publishers are sure wasting  
their money on that stupid acid-free paper.

1940s wartime books which _apologize_ for their paper are still  
enjoyably readable more than half a century later. A little  
discolored at the edges, and a careless page flip might tear a corner  
off, but they're in much better shape than my six-year-old Rocket  
eBook books, imperishable bits and all. Heck, my twenty-year-old mass- 
market _paperbacks_ are in OK shape, and as nearly as I can tell  
trade paperbacks are likely to last as long as hardbounds. And I can  
lend 'em to my wife, buy 'em, swap 'em, collect the whole set.

What an arrogant son-of-a-bitch. Why doesn't he come right out and  
say "we reject the view that consumers have any rights to use  
copyrighted material beyond whatever rights the publisher feels like  
granting?" Or "we reject the view that the only purpose of copyright  
is to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing  
for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to  
their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Who's asking for "perpetuity?" How about life-plus-75? What's sauce  
for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Why is it unreasonable for me to require that _my_ rights last as  
long as the publisher's?






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