Sharing Still Doesn't Hurt

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday April 26, 2002 @10:04AM from the all-i-need-to-know-i-learned-in-pre-school dept.

Robotech_Master writes "Eric Flint has posted two new Prime Palaver rants. The first one is a continuation of the one that was mentioned here on Slashdot the other day, about the Free Library, the e-book, encryption, and you:'One thing you have to understand about this whole controversy is how much of it is sheer hot air. Many authors and most publishers, when they address this issue, give people the impression they're at risk of losing their shirt through electronic "piracy." That's pure hogwash[...]' The second is a response to the idea of boycotting Harlan Ellison for his anti-piracy stance (and I imagine some Slashdot faces will be red over some of what he has to say!)." We linked to Ellison's rant last year.

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Wow, I can finally avoid killing trees! by mellon · 2002-04-26 17:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I just went to the Baen Books web site and discovered that they have a ton of books for sale for download. Being a bit of a Science Fiction addict, I have the problem that I wind up with a ton of books that I'd kind of like to have around for later use, but that I don't want to have to actually store.

So I just bought a couple of old classics online for a lot less than they cost in paper, they are each on the order of a megabyte in RTF, and I can have them in a subdirectory of my home directory! This is really cool!