ARTICLE: Every AZ student to get Microsoft Office

[Furmanek, Greg]

It is poeple like Mr.Kirshbaum that give Jewesh people
bad name....

Oh, well...

[Sigh]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Starta [mailto:john@starta.org]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:13 PM
> To: Nathan England
> Cc: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: ARTICLE: Every AZ student to get Microsoft Office
> 
> 
> At 10:06 PM 8/29/01 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> >Seriously, anyone up for missing a day of work to protest 
> under the nice
> >arizona sun? We could even bring flyers about DS and the whole DMCA
> >case.  Tell them they better enjoy the computers because 
> their libraries
> >are going away...
> >
> >Hmm, that just gave me a question. I'm sure most of you have 
> heard the
> >junk about the copyright owners and pro DMCA people looking 
> to getting
> >rid of libraries, I don't recall where I've heard this, I 
> think it was
> >on slashdot, but if they actually (I can't foresee this 
> happening, but I
> >never saw this either) got rid of libraries, what would be 
> next, video
> >stores?  Would we be arrested for entering bookman's and looking at
> >books, but not purchasing?  Maybe we're stealing 
> intellectual property?
> >How far could it go?
> 
> It is no secret that the movie, record, and publishing 
> industry have a 
> history of claiming that new technologies will bankrupt them. 
> They're now 
> complaining about paper books, too. In the September 18, 2000 
> issue of U.S. 
> News and World Report, p. 55, an article titled "The empire 
> strikes back" 
> states the following:
> 
>    A typical book, for example--the old-fashioned kind--finds 
> its way to five
>    or six readers beyond the original purchaser, according to Laurence
>    Kirshbaum, CEO of Time Warner's trade-publishing arm. "One of the
>    attractions of electronic publishing," he says, is the 
> ability to "cut down
>    on this pass-along."
> 
> This "loaning," as its practitioners call it, is indeed most 
> subversive. 
> There are even institutions, called "libraries," which carry 
> on this sort 
> of thing in a wholesale fashion. This was started by a very dangerous 
> individual named Franklin; maybe Mr. Kirshbaum should sue him.
> 
> jas
> 
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