Text of COL49

[Rich Clavey]

--- On Wed, 9/1/10, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:

> From: Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com>
> Subject: RE: Text  of COL49
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>, "Robert Mahnke" <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 6:15 AM
> << yes, it is and I sent it
> yesterday to a Harper exec for his piracy patrols to
> kill............
> Publishers have them now. necessary. >>
> 
> Wow. Aren't you righteous?
> 
> Ever tape a vinyl album onto a cassette? Or rip a CD? Or
> use a VCR to record a program off the TV?
> 
> I don't think circulating an e-text of a Pynchon novel is
> going to lose him much money.
> 
> 
Except all those examples you cite are legal. Blank cassette tapes at one time (not sure about nowadays) even had a surcharge tacked onto the price of them to pay to the record companies for each tape sold. 
z.