Tuesday, July 26, 2011  Farhad Manjoo as unrepentant but less
frequent Bittorrenter     Molly said...  I think that's a
consumption vs. creation difference, though. I don't want my
consumption to be any trickier than it needs to be--and we've
all seen how making it very easy to extract money from people
works (iTunes, Amazon's and other outlets' ebook sales). I
happily buy digital music where eight or ten years ago I was
pirating it, because I wasn't pirating to save money; I was
pirating because there weren't venues for legal sales, and I
wanted the digital files with no hard copy to throw out.
Whereas setting out to a creative endeavor is an entirely
different headspace, and one in which I'm sure he (as a writer,
after all) wouldn't prefer a no-work version. I mean, a no-work
version of creating is--what, full-on plagiarism? Not quite the
same as the piracy/legitimate-source divide, I think.  Rebecca
Tushnet said...  I think that's fair--though Lawrence Liang has
written interestingly about challenges of c