Text of COL49

[Jude Bloom]

Regardless of the ethics of it... isn't technology the decider here?  Again, not saying right or wrong... but all "media," it seems to me, is changing re: copyright, etc. I think publishers sending lawyer letters to set-up-yesterday-gone-tomorrow web sites is a fairly obvious losing battle. Movie and pop music companies have billions more to throw at this than book publishers do (esp. someone publishing Pynchon as opposed to John Grisham or something) and look at how little they've been able to do. 

Dunno what the answer is or will turn out to be, but the way we took care of books/copyright/money for the last 150 (?) years doesn't seem poised to have much of a future in our Buck Rogers 21st century. 

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On Sep 1, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I do not cruise to find them.....with email alerts for certain writers, they 
> come.
> 
> Publishers have to get much better at finding and stopping them IMMEDIATELY. 
> Scribed is notroiusly known, so I do not know why there is not some program to 
> catch and kill, but publishers
> do not have the best techies working for them......not enuff money for 
> them....................
> 
> okay, a hypocrite.....I confessed here in this group therapy community.........
> 
> I don't talk about it much. 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wed, September 1, 2010 7:45:16 AM
> Subject: RE: Text of COL49
> 
> Sure, but Mark.....
> 
> 
>> I will try to get illegal copies of favorite writers killed...
> 
> 
> ...you are in danger of coming across as a bit of a busy-body. And a hypocrite. 
> 
> Let he who is without sin download the first stone.
> 
> 
> Not really relevant in an impactful way on this discussion, but I add as a 
> sidebar: whilst we've been exchanging emails on this matter, I have been 
> struggling to download an album, 'Tomorrow Morning' by Eels - wait, don't tell 
> Sony, it's all legal I swear - and it's proved to be a real b at llache, using 
> iTunes, which will, by the way, get me an electronic copy of the album for 
> slightly more than I would pay on Amazon to buy the CD. And if I bought the CD I 
> could rip it at a higher bit rate, etc. 
> 
> 
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