Charles Stross on e-book piracy and librarians

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By Paul Biba

Via Jessamyn West’s librarian.net:

From a transcript of a talk between Paul Krugman and Charlie Stross [photo], from WorldCon

“As for the intellectual property, I try not to get too worked up about it. There’s a lot of people angsting about piracy and copying of stuff on the Internet, publishers who are very, very worried about the whole idea of ebook piracy. I like to get a little bit of perspective on it by remembering that back before the Internet came along, we had a very special term for the people who buy a single copy of a book and then allow all their friends to read it for free. We called them librarians.” [thanks karl]

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