December 2010
Internet Piracy of the 19th Century |... →
The way to get rid of pirates isn’t to fight them. 1) you will lose and 2) you will look like an old codger shaking his buggy whip at the newfangled autovehicle.
The way to get rid of pirates is to make it easier for them to support the authors they choose to pirate.
These aren’t evil people. They aren’t stealing things to ruin the lives of artists and writers. Pirates know a given work needs...
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“i have a problem: Alien vs. Predator
both are aliens; both are predators. WHICH...”
– - hilker
True. It should be “Xenomorph vs Yautja”
XVY!
(via aliensandpredators)
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The Project Gutenberg Project: Between ourselves,... →
projectgutenberg:
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a ‘good’ book. A book is ‘good’ only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error. A book that is good for me would very likely be punk for you. My pleasure is to prescribe books for such patients as drop in here and are willing to tell me their symptoms. Some people have let their reading...
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projectgutenberg:
It may be remarked that all bookshops that are open in the evening are busy in the after-supper hours. Is it that the true book-lovers are nocturnal gentry, only venturing forth when darkness and silence and the gleam of hooded lights irresistibly suggest reading?
- Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop (1919) [full text]
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Pentagon Papers II? On WikiLeaks and the First... →
ataferner:
s there a legal angle to the WikiLeaks story? The bottom line: the website WikiLeaks, a site that publishes confidential information, got its hands on a huge trove of classified military field reports from the war in Afghanistan, which it then leaked to three publications: the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel. The information disclosed paints a bleak picture of the war in...
Is Publication of Classified Info a Criminal Act? →
ataferner:
When Wikileaks published tens of thousands of classified U.S. military records concerning the war in Afghanistan last July, did it commit a criminal act under U.S. law? That was the question posed by a new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service. In the end, the CRS report tentatively concludes that “although unlawful acquisition of information might be subject to...
