Repeat After Me: A Book is a Book: "The idea that the copyright owner should get a cut every time a book changes hands is a Pandora's box. It's also just what copyright industry would like to see happen, and that's what the entertainment industry is trying to create with its various digital restrictions technologies.
The industry wants a pay-per-use world of arts and letters. Resist." [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] [Universal Rule]
This is what we may be coming to in a digital world. We own nothing and have to pay everytime we want to re-read a book. After all, we are just consumers, right? 10:00:49 PM
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