I as well. Perhaps some of our friends at Yahoo can get his IP to track him?
What’s the point? While he has violated copyright he did not appear to
do it maliciously, and he is likely from a country where copyright is
not so sanctified as it is in the US and Europe. The cat is out of the
bag and it is extremely difficult to determine what “lost revenue” his
copyright violation may have caused for the copyright holders. Likely
not enough to warrant paying lawyers to track him down and try to sue.
It is likely that some of those who did not delete the emails, read
the books and liked them will choose to purchase the real thing,
either for the paper version or just to pay for the electronic version
out of fairness. Some may not.
I think part of living in the modern internet connected world is
realizing that any copyrighted content you produce will be “pirated”
by some people. I think that needs to be considered one of the costs
of doing business in that realm.
The music and movie companies’ campaigns to completely eliminate all
copyright violations are unrealistic and will result in more misery
for the average person than they will solve problems.
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 06:49 am, James B. wrote:
not enough to warrant paying lawyers to track him down and try to sue.
Exactly. I believe that most of the people on this list would buy those
items if they wanted them, or already have them.
I think the number of people who received this mail, and now think, “Oh,
good; I was going to pay or this, but now I won’t”, is quite small.
Okay, If I pirated loads of books, what is the point of reading a book
many
times unless its a reference book like the pickaxe? I don’t think some
books
could be considered for repetitive reading. So once the book is read, it
becomes useless to the holder.
I do understand people do pirate books to read them before buying them,
and
even programs out there which show parts of the book just aren’t enough
to
judge a book before buying, but I don’t think someone needs to spam
everyone
on the list with huge attachments. There should really be a “trial book”
from
the publishers if people wished to perform this type of engagement.
Okay, If I pirated loads of books, what is the point of reading a book many
times unless its a reference book like the pickaxe? I don’t think some books
could be considered for repetitive reading. So once the book is read, it
becomes useless to the holder.
Thank goodness for libraries, right!
I do understand people do pirate books to read them before buying them, and
even programs out there which show parts of the book just aren’t enough to
judge a book before buying, but I don’t think someone needs to spam everyone
on the list with huge attachments.
Don’t misunderstand me in regards to my copyright tirade before…what
the “book emailer” did was wrong. I’m just saying now that it is done
there isn’t much we can do about it.
There should really be a “trial book” from
the publishers if people wished to perform this type of engagement.
Everything else aside, there is also the matter of having the
multi-megabyte email blob mass-mailed to everyone; it was a
particularly unkind thing for dialup users.
I got files 2, 3 and 4 on Jan 29th. I’ve got the paper copy of all books
except the Lua book, which does not fit in the otherwise respectable
collection.
For the simple fact that he is a spammer perhaps? 18Mb of spam, you
could almost consider that to be a mailbomb, my average spam is around
15Kb per message not 5Mb.
I vote we sieze hold of him, press him flat between a printing press
and throw him in the river. If he floats he’s not a witch and he can
go free. If he sinks he’s a witch and subject up to $5000 in fines for
each incident of criminal copyright infringement.
Get with the times dude. He has to hold an overclocked AMD CPU in his
hand whilst
carrying a 19 inch monitor up five flights of stairs. If after 24 hours
there are no blisters from the CPU then he is innocent.
I really don’t think a witchunt is necessary. Some people are
starting to sound like a rowdy lynch mob baying for blood.
I vote we sieze hold of him, press him flat between a printing press and
throw him in the river. If he floats he’s not a witch and he can go
free.
If he sinks he’s a witch and subject up to $5000 in fines for each
incident
of criminal copyright infringement.
