Wow, what an exciting day! Mark at Ditchwalk posted a great entry furthering the discussion we’ve been having about piracy and copyright. With his support, I feel like the discussion is going somewhere. In this post I want to directly respond to what he wrote, so please read his post first. Once you’ve done that, let’s talk:
Both of Mark’s scenarios that don’t involve the taking of something from someone else, but still involve physical piracy (free newspaper and concert), stem from the same given: content creators have a right to …

I’ve been working on a post in my head about e-books. I’ve been collecting the things I wanted to say, about the price differences between physical books and e-books, how more e-book copies sold just means more profits, not more costs, and about how Apple’s app store taught us that lowering a price means more copies sold, enough to cover the differences in price. I was all excited about writing it up and making great points.
And then my buddy sent me this link. Rick Broida says everything I wanted to …