Re: Romance Publisher Launches Kickass Antipiracy Campaign

--- In [email protected], Jon Jermey wrote:
> Because it galls me to see great advances for the human race held back by legal constraints that were designed when the most effective copying system was a scriptorium full of monks.
>

Extreme nonfactual exaggeration doesn't win points.

> Imagine that you still legally had to drive your 150 hp automobile at 5 mph, with a man carrying a red light walking in front, just because the red light manufacturers and the Walking In Front Union had a stranglehold on the legislature. That's the current situation with eBooks -- except that the speed is coming down over time from 5 to 4 to 3 mph...

More exaggeration.

As I see it, we smaller authors and pubbers have been caught up in a war between 'everything free' thieves and 'bleed them dry' robber barons of the book/movie/music industries.

Every few days a Google Alert turns up my name in torrents and on piracy sites, and another little piece of me goes to the darkside, not that there isn't already enough of me there. I'd cheerfully send computer-frying, finger-smashing, eye-scorching demons through those pirate sites and torrents if such mystical programming were available for my old Dell desktop.

The major pubbers are more a bottleneck or even an obstruction than anything else. Due to high executive salaries and expensive ad campaigns, they can no longer afford to publish anything less than a blockbuster.
This means a lot of good stuff that could easily sell in more moderate quantities never sees daylight unless an author self-pubs.

So... legislation that specifically targets pirates?
Fine with me, as long as people who aren't halfwit, windblown politicians get an editorial look at it before it becomes law.
Punishment? That's a more difficult issue. I'd favor heavy fines, hardware confiscation, and roadside chain gangs, of course. :)

But in fact, I think things will likely go on about as they have indefinitely because we have inept and corrupt leaders and lawmakers and a 'justice' system ruled by billable hours and political payoffs.
And 'we, the people' put them in power.
Ed
Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
http://www.AbintraPress.com



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