more Twilight stuff
i am finally done with the annual fam picnic at my house. i can "live" again online and post stuff. yay! more about that insanity later.
but FIRST, i wanted to bring a post made by brermatt to its own subject b/c i thought it was so very interesting and educational. thanks Matt for linking it. it has direct bearing on the whole Twilight book, Midnight Sun, leakage.
This article sums up my thoughts: Piracy and the Internet
Basically, from the article "obscurity is the biggest threat to authors and artists, not piracy"."Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy."
well done. i agree with many of the points brought out in this article. it was written in 2002 but nothing really has changed.
this next bit is from a rant, slightly edited, made in response to Matt's post by tatiana_baa. it is worth a read, too. ;)
ITA! Publishers of all kinds need to rethink their business models to take the net into account. The genie is out of the bottle, it's not going back in, and sending threatening letters to 'easy targets' like occasional downloaders won't fix that. They need to see the opportunities it presents, instead.
To me, the 'pirates' are the dodgy guys selling counterfeit DVDs and CDs from a suitcase at a car boot sale or in a market - not people, who download TV shows after they've been shown in the US rather than wait a year for them to be shown in the UK. Especially since most always end up buying the DVD set later. So where's their 'lost revenue' - the commercials they're not watching? People who Tivo already cut out commercials, people who tape ff past them. As for music, I seldom download except to preview a CD I'm thinking of getting. The quality isn't good enough for anything else.
People used emotive words like 'illegal downloading' and 'piracy' to attempt to criminalise the millions of people who are, at worst, taking advantage of somebody else's copyright infringement. In the UK, that's not even a criminal offence, it's a civil one. Nevertheless, the big media companies have 'persuaded' several ISPs to start giving them details of their customers who use p2p sites. This is a huge invasion of privacy. Big Brother tactics at the behest of Big Business. It's totally unacceptable in a so-called free country, and it makes me mad as hell.
Whew! Rant over... ;-)
But it just bugs me. I'm not a criminal but here I am, scared that my ISP will narc on me because I download a few tv shows for my own viewing! It's just not on...
bravo for that rant. *g* it is like the big stink in the 90's, going after "bad lyrics" and the music makers for corrupting kids, when it is the parents who should be held to task for not knowing what their kids are listening to or doing in their free time. or something like that.
that is all for now. except that when i get done with the other projects on my plate, i may have to read these books again b/c the first time i read so very quickly it is all a blur. ;)
but FIRST, i wanted to bring a post made by brermatt to its own subject b/c i thought it was so very interesting and educational. thanks Matt for linking it. it has direct bearing on the whole Twilight book, Midnight Sun, leakage.
This article sums up my thoughts: Piracy and the Internet
Basically, from the article "obscurity is the biggest threat to authors and artists, not piracy"."Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy."
well done. i agree with many of the points brought out in this article. it was written in 2002 but nothing really has changed.
this next bit is from a rant, slightly edited, made in response to Matt's post by tatiana_baa. it is worth a read, too. ;)
ITA! Publishers of all kinds need to rethink their business models to take the net into account. The genie is out of the bottle, it's not going back in, and sending threatening letters to 'easy targets' like occasional downloaders won't fix that. They need to see the opportunities it presents, instead.
To me, the 'pirates' are the dodgy guys selling counterfeit DVDs and CDs from a suitcase at a car boot sale or in a market - not people, who download TV shows after they've been shown in the US rather than wait a year for them to be shown in the UK. Especially since most always end up buying the DVD set later. So where's their 'lost revenue' - the commercials they're not watching? People who Tivo already cut out commercials, people who tape ff past them. As for music, I seldom download except to preview a CD I'm thinking of getting. The quality isn't good enough for anything else.
People used emotive words like 'illegal downloading' and 'piracy' to attempt to criminalise the millions of people who are, at worst, taking advantage of somebody else's copyright infringement. In the UK, that's not even a criminal offence, it's a civil one. Nevertheless, the big media companies have 'persuaded' several ISPs to start giving them details of their customers who use p2p sites. This is a huge invasion of privacy. Big Brother tactics at the behest of Big Business. It's totally unacceptable in a so-called free country, and it makes me mad as hell.
Whew! Rant over... ;-)
But it just bugs me. I'm not a criminal but here I am, scared that my ISP will narc on me because I download a few tv shows for my own viewing! It's just not on...
bravo for that rant. *g* it is like the big stink in the 90's, going after "bad lyrics" and the music makers for corrupting kids, when it is the parents who should be held to task for not knowing what their kids are listening to or doing in their free time. or something like that.
that is all for now. except that when i get done with the other projects on my plate, i may have to read these books again b/c the first time i read so very quickly it is all a blur. ;)