NY Times Ethicist Condones Ripping Off E-books
"joseph harris" <[email protected]>
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NY Times Ethicist Condones Ripping Off E-books
Posted at 11:27AM Sunday 04 Apr 2010
His 'advice' will warm the hearts of authors and book publishers desperately fighting to protect their literary properties from pirates and the ethical pygmies stealing e-books under the information-wants-to-be-free banner.
http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/26634
http://ereads.com/2010/04/ny-times-ethicist-condones-ripping-off-e-books.html
'...His reasoning? Author and publisher are entitled to be paid for their work, and by purchasing the hardcover, you did so. Your subsequent downloading is akin to buying a CD, then copying it to your iPod....'
'...Though Cohens column and photo are undoubtedly protected by copyright and we may be flouting copyright law by reprinting them in full here, his moral position has liberated us to do just that. If he and the Timess attorneys want to take issue with us, we will refer them to his disgusting perversion of morality spelled out in Exhibit A below....'
http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=14032
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