tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14775521.post6155187576029328425..comments2024-01-19T17:11:24.561-08:00Comments on Jude Mason: Friday musingJude Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14067166768734750026noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14775521.post-24360272838584109642010-02-06T11:52:57.423-08:002010-02-06T11:52:57.423-08:00Interesting piece, Jude. I'm not sure how it&#...Interesting piece, Jude. I'm not sure how it's going to be stopped, but somehow it has to be. The problem is that it's so very easy to copy and paste a huge amount of text into a web page, upload it and bingo - your work is there for anyone to read or download. <br /><br />The music industry is still battling to try to get a hold on the problem, though I have less sympathy with them, after all how many times, and in how many media forms, do they want me to buy Ella Fitzgeralds songbook albums? <br /><br />Writing is something different, something that's unique and of it's time. Followers of a writer can tell roughly when the book was written simply by the style of writing - well sometimes we can.<br /><br />Maybe some kind of watermark could be used that would block anyone from copying the work, I'm not techie by any stretch of the imagination. More likely the real sanction is for the pirate sites to be blocked or fined enough for them to learn the lesson. I'm pretty sure there are brains out there that can solve the problem, but is there the will?<br /><br />Perhaps the thought of the loss of tax on $3 billion may bring a little more interest from governments, after all, pretty well all the western countries need every penny they can get at the moment! <br /><br />Anyway, more power to your elbow Jude, you just keep on truckin' and us readers - the genuine ones - will keep on buying.Verbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05689675959806544305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14775521.post-55718693545261837352010-02-06T05:45:29.519-08:002010-02-06T05:45:29.519-08:00Sorry I miss this yesterday...
I feel your pain h...Sorry I miss this yesterday...<br /><br />I feel your pain hon and I hope things pick up for you and hubby in the very near future - when you have to touch that nest egg that's when you have to start worrying....<br /><br />Anyhow...<br /><br />Piracy - I will say it, I hate it and I agree not enough is being done by the powers that be to tackle this - especially ISP...<br /><br />Over in the UK - I know there is a software in place - where ISP can find out who is doing what and when... but guess what, as part of the human rights act, that is invasion of privacy... <br /><br />So untill they can find a way around that - Big brother can only watch and do nothing....<br /><br />Why more people dont get involved...<br /><br />Because - I think more people are not concerned with common courtesy and I know it's simplistic...<br /><br />But for me piracy boils down to that - if I appreciate you for the time, effort and blood sweat and tears that you have shed to write this - I would in return show due courtesy by going through the proper channel and giving you credit for your work....<br /><br />Another thing - is that and this is just my opinion... If the entire publishing sector had recognised digital formatt in it's infancy as a viable form of getting the boosk to the reader, rather than being all snarky about it and comparing apples and pears - both print and digital format professional and techies could have put a stop to this or at the least have a working solution to the problem....<br /><br />But if one side push and the other pull - you will get no where...<br /><br />Because some where along the line this became a mattter of who has the bigger dick and me as the reader am left behind....<br /><br />Because there is no two ways about it - with every hyped up marketing plan out there or nifty little website - the art of ease of use is gone and everything need to be in a model or geared towards a format and still I am left behind.... trying to get the right card to work on the right website, making sure my product work withthe format - trying to decipher customer service and the biggie navigating some of these sites just to get to the book...<br /><br />That's my two cents worth...<br /><br />Off me soap box now.....<br /><br /><br />E.H>Erotic Horizonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02236771670599353453noreply@blogger.com