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same_skyAnd also from CNN Money, an article about the new Harry Potter novel popping up on file-sharing sites. I just loved this paragraph.
"E-book rights are reserved to J.K. Rowling," agent Neil Blair told the Times. "So any Harry Potter novels on the Net are unauthorized. We also have an obligation to protect the children who might believe they are reading the official work."
An obligation to protect the children?! What kind of politically correct buzzphrase is this? Protect the children from reading something for free as opposed to shelling out $27 for it? I'm not at all disputing the fact that it's a copyright infringement, everyone should rush right out and purchase their own copy if they want to read it, ladadadada. But I hardly think that it's a matter of protecting the children. If you're so bloody interested in protecting the children, then perhaps you should join the search for a missing child, implement programs for at-risk kids, boost the anti-drug campaigns, kick Bush out of office (sorry, couldn't resist, still high-strung from the last entry) or something--anything--other than run around smacking people down for keeping a minimal amount of money, relatively speaking, from the publisher's hot little hands. Oh, wait, they don't even think that these copies floating around will impact the number sold.. *snicker* Pretentious dumbass.
"E-book rights are reserved to J.K. Rowling," agent Neil Blair told the Times. "So any Harry Potter novels on the Net are unauthorized. We also have an obligation to protect the children who might believe they are reading the official work."
An obligation to protect the children?! What kind of politically correct buzzphrase is this? Protect the children from reading something for free as opposed to shelling out $27 for it? I'm not at all disputing the fact that it's a copyright infringement, everyone should rush right out and purchase their own copy if they want to read it, ladadadada. But I hardly think that it's a matter of protecting the children. If you're so bloody interested in protecting the children, then perhaps you should join the search for a missing child, implement programs for at-risk kids, boost the anti-drug campaigns, kick Bush out of office (sorry, couldn't resist, still high-strung from the last entry) or something--anything--other than run around smacking people down for keeping a minimal amount of money, relatively speaking, from the publisher's hot little hands. Oh, wait, they don't even think that these copies floating around will impact the number sold.. *snicker* Pretentious dumbass.
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