On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:57:15PM -0800, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Matthew Hunter wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:26:17PM -0800, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > > > > _Brokedown Palace_. Note that BP is currently out of print, > > > > and that none of the other Dragaera books bother to mention > > > > that it's part of the series, making it very likely that > > > > people new to Brust discussions will not have read it yet. > > > While it's probably morally dubious to buy SKZB's work in such > > > a way that he doesn't benefit, those wishing to participate > > > in the typically unspoilered occasional _BP_ discussion but who > > > don't have a copy can currently find 19 at half.com and then > > > get a new edition when it comes out... No doubt the welcome- > > > to-the-list message should mention this book if it doesn't already. > > Doctrine of first sale covers this, folks. It's hardly immoral > > to buy a used book; the author got his cut when it was first > > sold. > I don't have an informed opinion on this subject, but my brother's a > composer, and I don't get music free off the web. I certainly buy > many of my books used and might well download them free - it's not > clear to me what's different about that though. "Getting music free" is not the same thing as buying a used book. The appropriate analogy for getting free music would be getting a free photocopy someone made from a book at one point. Downloading a book for free would be in most cases wrong -- sometimes publishers have set up that sort of thing, and of course some are out of copyright. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp