The Big Problem Isn’t Piracy, It’s Obscurity.

He Had Them As Spellbound As A Room Full Of Ewoks Listening To C-3po.

The Companies Are Multinational--why Should Labor Still Stick To Borders?

Universal Access To Human Knowledge Is In Our Grasp, For The First Time In The History Of The World. This Is Not A Bad Thing.

The United States Of America Was A Pirate Nation For The First One Hundred Years Of Its Existence, Ripping Off The Patents And Trademarks Of The Imperial European Powers It Had Liberated Itself From By Blood. By Keeping Their Gdp At Home, The U.s. Revolutionaries Were Able To Bootstrap Their Nation Into An Industrial Powerhouse. Now, It Seems, Their Descendants Are Bent On Ensuring That No Other Country Can Pull The Same Trick Off.

... The Kindle Is A "roach Motel" Device: Its License Terms And Drm Ensure That Books Can Check In, But They Can't Check Out.