On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:32:27AM -0500, Susan Beth wrote:
At 11:52 PM 11/8/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Susan Beth wrote:
I still think paper fanzines will go extinct as soon as some e-book reader gets widely accepted.
Oh, I really hope not. I prefer reading print on a page, and turning the pages. Surely I'm not the only one?
Not at all. But it may become a question of the paper version of a book being an expensive luxury you indulge in for special books while 'ordinary' read once books you buy electronically.
<rant> <expletive deleted> I hope not! What with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, if all books go electronic, then the future of freedom looks very grim. Did you ever notice the licences that go with E-books? You aren't even allowed to *lend* them to people! You aren't even allowed to assert your Fair Use rights and quote them! People have been threatened and jailed over the DCMA already. This is dire, dire, dire.
Check out <www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html> and http://www.freesklyarov.org
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ObB7: maybe Orac was invented to get around the Federation's copyright-protection schemes...
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