Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-28-2010

[andrewducker]

• Airport worker given police warning for misusing body scanner
  (tags: privacy security airport politics surveillance)
• Dialogue between an Author and a Pirate
  (tags: copyright writing)
• China's instructions on reporting on Google
  (tags: china google politics censorship journalism)
• The Philosophy of Punk Rock Mathematics
  (tags: mathematics teaching punk philosophy education)
• Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys
  (tags: genetics medicine color blindness colorblind)

Comments

Dialogue between an Author and a Pirate

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

What a glib little bastard.

Re: Dialogue between an Author and a Pirate

[andrewducker]

I do find it fascinating that many, many friends of mine are happy downloading music, TV, etc. but draw the line at books.

Re: Dialogue between an Author and a Pirate

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

My theory on that; music is available for free on the radio, and TV (and movies) is freely available on the tube... ad supported, of course, but no charge to the recipient/consumer. It's always there, ubiquitous, turn on the tap and in in pours. There is, therefor, an expectation that the content could be free.

Books, though, not so much... the only "mass market" means of free consumption of books, the library, inculcates a respect for the content and seems to emphasise its scarcity and preciousness. So there is less expectation of free content in that form.

-- Steve hasn't quite figured out how games ended up on the wrong end of the piracy spectrum according to this view, except that there was a thriving piracy "market" in software at least since the advent of the floppy disc.

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

China sounds like such a lovely place to live.

Re: Dialogue between an Author and a Pirate

[broin.livejournal.com]

I've downloaded both books and comics. I don't like reading on a monitor, but comics aren't so bad because they're shorter.

And that's about it. Get me a full colour reader than can handle PDFs for about a hundred quid, and I'd download a lot more.