Digital Rights Managment vs the Inevitability of Free Content
1. Digital Rights Management vs the Inevitability of Free Content Book Publishing, the Illusion of Piracy and Giving the Customer What They Pay For By Sean Cranbury Presented at SFU Digital Publishing Workshop 2009 [email_address] / www.booksontheradio.ca
14. Know Your Pirate #1: Scanned and seeded 709 pages to the P2P site. Includes bibliographic data and notes on the file for peers. Is this evangelism, theft or something else?
15. Know Your Pirate #2: Note the dedication to print and electronic books. Is this person providing a service to his community of passionate fans?
16. Know Your Pirate #3: small sample of 8 pages of positive commentary about the Stephen King uploads. Note the gratitude among peers, several comments about owning many of the author’s physical books.
17. Known Your Pirate #4: CanLit is safe from relevancy on file sharing sites.
18. Know Your Pirate #5: Several Salinger ebooks uploaded, including 4 translations of Catcher in the Rye. Is there malicious intent here?