“Are you buying a crippled license to intellectual property when you download, or are you buying an honest-to-God book?” Good question. The answer is no…and yes.
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The record industry has made us rebuy our music at least four times by now: first on vinyl, then on cassette, then on CD and now digitally, not counting compilations and best of-collections. Now they come complaining about licensing and filesharing, while they've been cheating the consumers for ages just because they used to control the distribution channels. Why would the publishing industry be less sneaky?
I suppose we could have used the title 'not safe for anyone' many times already, but I thought it would be especially pertinent here because in this show Richard and Hans illustrate the many situations in which the C-word is perfectly appropriate.
The record industry has made us rebuy our music at least four times by now: first on vinyl, then on cassette, then on CD and now digitally, not counting compilations and best of-collections. Now they come complaining about licensing and filesharing, while they've been cheating the consumers for ages just because they used to control the distribution channels. Why would the publishing industry be less sneaky?