Re: [dvd-discuss] [OT] Money-where-your-mouth-is department

[Joshua Stratton <cpt(at)gryphon.auspice.net>]

Then they should have said "The contents of this CD may be copied and 
shared, but not sold during the relevant copyright terms." I mean, I 
appreciate the thought, but it doesn't excuse poor drafting for such a 
very simple thing.

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Eric Seppanen wrote:

> I would guess that they mean "don't start selling copies", not "don't 
> sell this CD".  These are the good guys, we owe them the benefit of the 
> doubt.
> 
> But hey, don't take my word for it; go download some books yourself:
> 
> http://www.baen.com/library/
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:36:05PM -0400, Joshua Stratton wrote:
> > Nevertheless, I don't care for the imposition on the first-sale rights of 
> > the CD. It's great that noncommercial copying and sharing is permitted, 
> > but you might like to resell the original CD sometime, even if you cannot 
> > resell the copies from it.
> > 
> > 
> > On 10 Oct 2002, D. C. Sessions wrote:
> > 
> > > This week I picked up a copy of David Weber's new Honor Harrington
> > > story, _War_of_Honor_.  In the back there's this CD from Baen
> > > Books.  On examination, it contains 38 plain-HTML books, including
> > > all of the other books in the Honor Harrington univers, plus filk,
> > > artwork, supplemental material, etc.
> > > 
> > > The T&C?  As printed on the CD, "This disk and its contents may
> > > be copied and shared but NOT sold."
> > > 
> > > That's it.  *Thirty-eight* freaking full books, including best
> > > sellers, all in plain file formats with no monkey business,
> > > and Baen *wants* people to 'pirate' it.  From the website, it's
> > > because Baen has hard, cold, cash records proving that every
> > > time they turn loose an electronic copy of a story the sales
> > > go up, not only for that one but for others by the same author.
> > > 
> > > I *so* want Jim Baen to testify before Congress.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > | The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. |
> > > | Because the slow, feeble old codgers like me cheat.                |
> > > +--------------- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> --------------+
> > > 
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