Is this like the rule where any post correcting anothers grammer or spelling, invariably contains an obvious error in grammer or spelling?
If you are going to critic another persons writing for being full of redundant descriptive passages shouldn't you be extra careful to not make the same mistake?
Of course the truly paranoid (I prefer realist myself) among us believe that its the record labels themselves funding the large scale piracy rings overseas. What better way to screw over the competition then to take their best stuff make a billion cheap copies of it and sell 'em on a street corner in Taiwan? That way you screw the competition while making a small profit...
Seriously, who else is going to fund the reproduction facilities neccessary to really hurt a big company like CBS or RCA?
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"...sci-fi fiction..."
Is this like the rule where any post correcting anothers grammer or spelling, invariably contains an obvious error in grammer or spelling?
If you are going to critic another persons writing for being full of redundant descriptive passages shouldn't you be extra careful to not make the same mistake?
Of course the truly paranoid (I prefer realist myself) among us believe that its the record labels themselves funding the large scale piracy rings overseas. What better way to screw over the competition then to take their best stuff make a billion cheap copies of it and sell 'em on a street corner in Taiwan? That way you screw the competition while making a small profit... Seriously, who else is going to fund the reproduction facilities neccessary to really hurt a big company like CBS or RCA?
"The Potter books are derivative (some say plagiarised, and with good reason)"
Would you care to back up this claim?
Go look for "So you want to be a Wizard?" By Diane Duane, first published in 1983.
Plagiarism? No, but changing the setting from an american jr. high school to a british boarding school is not the epitome of creativity either.