Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-6-2010

[andrewducker]

• Flamboyant Bravery Under Fire
  (tags: war military bravery)
• The Woo of Lost, reviewed by Adam Roberts
  (tags: lost scifi)
• Govt. announces big constitutional changes
  66% to get force an election - unless no government can be formed in 14 days. I like that.
  (tags: politics reform uk)
• Things I won't work with - a catalogue of really unpleasant chemicals
  (tags: chemistry science funny dangerous explosives)
• Fighting with teenagers: A Copyright story
  (tags: copyright music law filesharing sheetmusic)

Comments

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

>Definitely, but I don't think the
>art forms are precious.

Dunno. I rather like the well rounded 100K SF/F novel... as do the people who download pirate copies.


>How much is a drink?
Not a good analogy because, whatever the source, a bottle of Becks is a bottle of Becks.

Analogies really just obscure the simplicity of what's happening: the Tragedy of the Commons.

Re: Fighting with teenagers

[broin.livejournal.com]

Not a good analogy because, whatever the source, a bottle of Becks is a bottle of Becks.

Yes... but that's my point. :) The content is the same, and we pay for the medium (venue). I've paid for physical copies of books that are free and Creative Commonsed. I've bought electronic copies of books I own. The actual *stuff* might not be what I'm paying for.