Re: digital ethics

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on Apr 19, 2013; 3:57pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/digital-ethics-tp7582823p7582847.html

It's okay Glen, those results are high in the search because they're useful to people who search.  The publisher is using the police powers of our government to enforce its monopoly on the book, but has chosen to limit its marketing efforts to the richest people in the world and told the rest to go f*** themselves.  Us middle class semi eggheads are willing to pay $100/copy and we're easy to find because we all live together.

What you're seeing is a new piece of common law being established. 

If a trademark holder does not defend a trademark by action in the marketplace, it loses it.  

If a patent holder does not market a patented drug which could save lives, it loses the patent.  

If a publisher fails to make its copyrighted works available, it loses the copyright.

These virtual property rights do not include the right to hoard, you have to exercise the right if you want to keep it.

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:40 AM, glen <[hidden email]> wrote:

Well, my point wasn't really related to the price.  It's more about
cost:benefit, or perhaps low hanging fruit.  The cops tell us to lock
our doors, not because locks keep out serious criminals, but because it
puts a tiny hurdle in front of the lazy opportunist criminals.

Seeing the bootlegs so high up in the page rank is what makes it
interesting, to me.  It's so _easy_ to steal.  That's what brings the
subject so much closer to conversations about "the commons" or the
public good.

At what point does ubiquity _force_ membership in the commons?

Arlo Barnes wrote at 04/18/2013 12:19 PM:

> But it sounds like it is out of your price range, at least for now. The
> author (nor the

> publisher<http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/reminder-why-theres-no-tipjar.html>)

> gets no money from you checking the book out of the library, so what are
> they losing from you pirating the book? Not that I am suggesting that is

> what you *should* do - it is an individual decision, after all - but I

> always find it interesting what people consider their 'boundary' and why.

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=><= glen e. p. ropella

Now may I present to you the basilisk?

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