http://www.freepress.net/taxonomy/term/795 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.freepress.net/node/38109 <p>In a dire article in London's Times yesterday, reporter Ben Hoyle opened with the self-evidently ludicrous statement that "book piracy on the Internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales." Internet piracy, no matter how pervasive, is not about to bring the worldwide production of literature to a grinding halt, just as rampant music piracy isn't stopping my neighbor's kid from playing his drum kit in the garage every day before dinner.</p> <p><a href="http://www.freepress.net/node/38109">read more</a></p> Future of the Internet authors Copyright intellectual property Internet piracy publishers writers Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:09:58 -0700 Holiday Shapiro 38109 at http://www.freepress.net