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April 30, 2009

Speculation about the new iPhones is rife
File under book crime watch, pt 2 – fraud involving forged Hemingway inscriptions (via @bookpatrol)
The 2009 Edgar Awards are handed out tonight
Jamie Oliver gets pulped
Dante’s Inferno as a video game (via The Elegant Variation)
More industry predictions, “BEA will turn into a bloodbath that will rival the sack of Rome. Only a few people (probably from Random House) will survive.” (via The Afterword)
Do you know about largehearted boy’s Daily Downloads? Today he’s got Double Dagger, Neil Young and PJ Harvey. Run, don’t walk.
The Tao of Keef includes such gems: “It seems strange that we do the same thing with the same boys all these years later. But it’s like when you get drunk at a bar and wonder later how you got home. You know where you are — you’re home — but how did you get there? That’s the mystery.” (via Quillblog)

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michel says:
April 30th, 2009 at 9:43 am
I’ve just asked on LargeHearted Boy’s own site, but I’ll ask here, too:

what makes those concert bootlegs legal for download?
david says:
April 30th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
The mp3s I post are all provided by artists/publicists/labels and cleared for posting.

The bittorrent links to concerts are distributed by two websites who respect intellectual property (etree.org and dimeadozen.org), and remove any offending content immediately.
michel says:
April 30th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
David,

Thanks for the reply, and the email replies you sent me. I’d like to point out here that, in fact, those sites do not respect intellectual property. In general, copyright law states that the creator has the right to reproduce their own work and others must apply for permission. As far as I know, no copyright law anywhere states that works are freely reproducible until explicitly forbidden.

Whatever moral side of the issue people take, this is an important issue for creators everywhere.

April 30, 2009