Printcrime by Cory Doctorow

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Printcrime by Cory Doctorow

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http://craphound.com/?p=573&title=PrintCrime wonderful (very) short story by Cory Doctorow.

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Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com >> Blog Archive » Printcrime
News. Printcrime. This story appears in my collection Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present, 2007. Nature Magazine · Mini-comic by Martin Cendreda, published by Secret Headquarters · Podcast (Esc…

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This Youtube video is blocked in your country

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Can somebody please explain to me what the purpose of this stupid message is? Or maybe I should ask what do the copyright owners THINK the purpose of this restriction is…

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More than a thousand angry people have protested outside a Dolce and Gabbana store…

Posted by on Jan 25, 2012 in Blog | No Comments

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More than a thousand angry people have protested outside a Dolce and Gabbana store in Hong Kong on January 8, 2012 after the Italian clothing store allegedly prevented people from taking photos of its shop front.
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D&G Discrimination (D&G歧視港人), Tsim Sha Tsui, HK
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Piracy isn't the big problem for authors, obscurity is

Posted by on Jan 25, 2012 in Blog | One Comment

In today's word where big recording studios and copyright-obsessed corporations are in their spasms of death trying to introduce things like SOPA and PIPA, this older but very relevant article from Cory Doctorow should be reminded again:

Why do you give away your books? Cory Doctorow answers:
For me — for pretty much every writer — the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity (thanks to Tim O'Reilly for this great aphorism). Of all the people who failed to buy this book today, the majority did so because they never heard of it, not because someone gave them a free copy. Mega-hit best-sellers in science fiction sell half a million copies — in a world where 175,000 attend the San Diego Comic Con alone, you've got to figure that most of the people who "like science fiction" (and related geeky stuff like comics, games, Linux, and so on) just don't really buy books. I'm more interested in getting more of that wider audience into the tent than making sure that everyone who's in the tent bought a ticket to be there.

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http://craphound.com/littlebrother/about/

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Little Brother » About this book/FAQ
About this book/FAQ. What's Little Brother about? Why do you give away your books? How do I donate to you? What's Little Brother about? Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, bu…

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