1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

[Alan Dayley]

The irony is very, very thick and not lost on me.  If it were fiction,
the reader would disrespect the author for using so obvious a
connection.

It would be very funny if it was fiction.

Alan

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:42 AM, James
Finstrom<jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
> Am I the onlyone who sees the irony here. An entity who has the
> ability to control what you can and can't read and ummm the book 1984
>
> On 7/18/09, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Austin William
>> Wright<diamondmagic at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>> It is this one,
>>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
>>>
>>> Stallman, as usual, is right, even if (I think) for all the wrong
>>> reasons. Copyright is something that could not exist in a free society,
>>> the only way it can exist is through the coercion of government force,
>>> restricting you from doing otherwise lawful things with what you own as
>>> your property (In fact, even if there was no private property,
>>> government could still enforce intellectual property). Regardless of
>>> wither intellectual property should exist, it is of little doubt the
>>> power grabs by the government and long copyright terms are hurting the
>>> market for authors instead of helping. I don't know if Amazon would
>>> still have the right to take back books like they did (without studying
>>> property rights a bit more, I suspect 'they do but why would they want
>>> to?'), in any case I don't think that, without copyright as it is, they
>>> could have pulled it off (no pun intended har har har). At the very
>>> most, commercial pressures might have gotten them to do so, but another
>>> publisher would step up offering a better alternative, with no
>>> artificial hampering of the market by patent or copyright.
>>>
>>> I think with Washington, DC the way it is right now there is nothing
>>> standing in the way of even more copyright expansion (or government in
>>> general for that matter), like "database rights" in the European Union
>>> or a broad "workright" where you own the "right" to anything you invest
>>> time into and all derivatives (like making a copy of a public domain
>>> work).
>>
>> Thanks for finding the reference story.
>>
>> Alan
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