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Book exec steals Google laptops to "teach lesson" about theft | |
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| Time: 12:55 EST/17:55 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Michael Dragone | ||
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Richard Charkin is an unrepentant thief. Charkin, a UK executive with publisher Macmillan, attended last week's Book Expo America in New York and decided to make his feelings about Google Book Search clear by teaching Google a lesson: he stole two of the company's laptops. | ||
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| #1 By 6859 (206.156.242.36) at 6/8/2007 3:06:12 PM |
| Very bad analogy. It's not theft, it's infringement. But I see where he's going: it's easier to mock-up theft to prove a point than IP infringement. |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/8/2007 3:21:37 PM |
| All of these big media execs mis-characterize infringement as theft as that will get them more sympathy when they're crying in front of Congress for new laws. |
| #3 By 32132 (142.32.208.234) at 6/8/2007 3:58:50 PM |
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"Lessig also points out that making a copy of a digital work is essentially different from stealing someone's laptop; when the laptop disappears, the user no longer has access to it and has lost something important and costly. The same is not true when Google scans a book. "
Would Lessig allow Charkin to remove the hard drive from the laptop, copy it, and post all the info on the web if he returned the laptop and drive? |
| #4 By 1401 (65.255.137.29) at 6/8/2007 4:25:39 PM |
| I once stole a pair of underwear from a woman. I taught her a lesson! |
| #5 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 6/8/2007 11:13:25 PM |
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i once met a girl at a bar, and later found out she wasn't wearing any underwear.
thanks chris! i probably went over the same lesson material with her. This post was edited by mooresa56 on Friday, June 08, 2007 at 23:14. |
| #6 By 12071 (203.206.228.94) at 6/8/2007 11:13:50 PM |
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#1 The **AA use the exact same flawed analogy - works well on the idiots who don't know any better.
#4 I don't want to know what she learnt from that! |
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