Message: 33 From: "Mark K. Bilbo" <mark@blorch.org> Reply-To: mark@blorch.org To: free-sklyarov@zork.net Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] More Frequently Asked Questions About e-Books Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 06:58:26 -0700 >From Megapublishers.fnord: Q: Are eBooks popular? A: No. According to surveys, three-quarters of the public wouldn't buy a book in any electronic form whatsoever. Q: So the failure of eBooks is due to market forces? A: It's due to criminal theft of intellectual property! Q: But you just said nobody wants to buy eBooks. A: Exactly. Refusing to give us money is theft. Q: Isn't it rather silly to go to such lengths to protect something nobody wants? A: Not at all. If we can establish the principle that corporate profits supercede civil rights, the profit potential is astonishing. Q: But if you criminalize so much doesn't that make everybody a criminal? A: Yes! That's the point. If essentially everybody is a criminal, then anybody who upsets us can be arrested, charged, and punished on a whim. Q: That sounds rather Soviet. A: Where do you think we learned it? Q: Doesn't that make you communist or something? A: Absolutely not! We're making oppression profitable! Q: Won't people just read books and you'll go broke? A: Not after we own all the publishing companies, all the copyrights, and all the books. Q: But then you'll have to ban reading books or something. Close libraries and such. A: We're working on it. Q: Oh so that's why you called them "Ruby Ridge" types? Start the propoganda campaign early? A: We don't like where this is going. You're under arrest.
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