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Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web

... Ursula K. Le Guin, the science fiction writer, was perusing the Web site Scribd last month when she came across digital copies of some books that seemed quite familiar to her. No wonder. She wrote them, including a free-for-the-taking copy of one of her most enduring novels, "The Left Hand of Darkness." ...

Yep ... that's a big pirate cove ... Scribd.

Although this story may make people aware of Inet piracy the publisher of the New York Times unfortunately celebrates heathenism over Judeo-Christian morality whose followers actually pay for works of art.

I have the Times; that's my religion; that's what I believe in, - Arthur Sulzberger Jr

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The reason I posted that story is to illustrate the inexorable advances that digital information distribution systems are making.

Betamax. VHS. Cassette audio tapes. DVR. Napster. File sharing. Adobe Flash. DVD. And so on.

Information sharing of all types will continue to multiply. It cannot be stopped