There are illegal websites out there that make electronic copies of popular books and encourage people to download them for free. These pirate sites make their money off advertisements, including Google ads.
A friend recently pointed me to an illegal copy of one of my books, SATFOL, which was sponsored (without his knowledge, of course) by "Elliott Massie"!
It is a strange world in which we live.
(Originally posted by Clark Aldrich on Saturday, January 21, 2006)
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What are your feelings about this, though? Is this a case of 'information wants to be free,' or of intellectual-property pirating?
I don't know your stand on these issues, but in other areas I've seen pretty much an inverse relationship between desire-that-everything-be-free and amount-of-IP-I've-created.
I am not sure what the question it!
Thieves are thieves. Case closed.
I'm sorry my question was obscure. I was trying to ask without sounding the least rhetorical.
In another area of IP, I've been astonished at people who assume that because they think the price of music CDs is too high, they should be able to download and trade individual music files with others, regardless of who holds copyright. That's the sort of behavior I've seen justified under the rubric of "information wants to be free."
My second paragraph was my own opinion: people who are free and easy about where IP applies tend to change their tune when they have their own intellectual property.
Dave
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