Charles Stross on ebook piracy and librarians
From a transcript of a talk between Paul Krugman and Charlie Stross, from WorldCon
“As for the intellectual property, I try not to get too worked up about it. There’s a lot of people angsting about piracy and copying of stuff on the Internet, publishers who are very, very worried about the whole idea of ebook piracy. I like to get a little bit of perspective on it by remembering that back before the Internet came along, we had a very special term for the people who buy a single copy of a book and then allow all their friends to read it for free. We called them librarians.” [thanks karl]
August 12th, 2009 at 9:27
Couldn’t resist re-publishing this on TeleRead!
Paul Biba
Co-Editor
TeleRead.org
August 12th, 2009 at 11:40
Hi Jessamyn, please check your spelling of piracy in the headline, you are giving librarians a bad name :)
August 12th, 2009 at 2:12
@samspade: It’s priapism.
August 21st, 2009 at 11:31
I was at that talk and my friend totally high-fived me when Stross said that.
Their conversation as a whole was very informative; a great start to my first WorldCon.