Internet piracy spreads from music to books
- From: Ben Crowell <crowell01@[redacted]>
- Subject: Internet piracy spreads from music to books
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:58:14 -0700
Grant Cunningham wrote:
>I think we are going to have to accept that like in the music industry
>copyright is dead. The box is open and Pandora left for LA in a hurry.
The following paper on First Monday lays out an excellent case for
exactly the contrary point of view:
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/lynch/index.html
It argues that the former balance of power between reader
and copyright owners has been fundamentally changed by
technology, and that copyright owners now hold the cards.
The Sklyarov case is also a sobering lesson.