[access-uk] Re: iPod shuffle ready to go?
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:34:12 +0100
Well Angel, if I might join in, lending libraries here in the UK are a public
service, well what's left of them! The notion of public service has taken
quite a pasting here in the last quarter century so, not surprisingly, you are
often hard pressed to find the latest books there.
As for 'rational' arguments for stealing, well certain theologians in the
middle ages did argue that stealing food for survival was OK, just as much as
you needed to stay alive that is. I guess Daman is arguing for the right for
food for the soul, as man/woman does not live by food alone.
I can only say that what's left of my reason is down to a lot of reading, much
of it on tape, when I was very down and depressed. The sheer farce of trying
to study at a higher level without anything approaching the breadth of material
available to other students has to be gone through to be believed.
I still have just enough sight to buy books in print occasionally and its
certainly a sad fact that your average high street bookshop these days has many
times more books available to buy than we get our hands on in all the various
formats. I just wonder how much those here would be prepared to pay to own a
copy if that were an option. Seems to me that unabridged audio books are
always going to be at a premium price although I do not see that the margin has
to be as high as it is now.
Obviously, this is a very involved subject when you get down to it. I just
wonder how greater percentage of text material can and will be made available,
and more to the point, how? Taking the risk of resurrecting the format wars
here, Braille versus audio versus computer etc. just how will the extreme
demand for stuff in whatever format we want hold up to reality?
By the way, I've shortened the whole message here as, apart from wondering
offoff the original topic, I feared it would excede the file size allowed on
this list!
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Angel"
> Libraries give books for free because of their community obligation, not
> because of a human rite any may have. Have you tried to get the books you
> seek from sources like Audible.com. The people there have gone out of their
> way to make their site and books accessible to us. There is no rational
> explanation for stealing.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Damon Rose"
>
>> Why shouldn't access to the latest cultural input be seen as a human
> right? Libraries give reference books and novels out for free for similar
> reasons, surely?
>>
>> What about classic books of our time, thos that are social commentaries
> such as 1984 or Catcher in the Rye? They're touchstones in common parliance,
> using the term 'big brother society' uses a character from a novel to
> shortcut, yet also add colour to, an explanation about a complicated concept
> that was neatly wrapped up by Orwell.
>>
>> Books like Turn of the Century in 1999 really tapped into the
> technological and social zeitgeist.
>>
>> Books such as Fast Food Nation or Jon Snow's autobiography Shooting
> History, for instance, are not exactly reference books but contain an awful
> lot of important and significant commentary and information.
>>
>> It's hard to draw the line and there's no good reason to continue to make
> books inaccessible.
>>
>> I would prefer to pay publishers and authors for their work so that they
> will continue to publish great books. I would like authors to benefit from
> my individual purchase. But if books are inaccessible then they kind of
> have to accept that we steal their texts.
>>
>> In a lot of ways, they are stealing things away from us in the first
> place, we're just steeling it bak again.
>>
>> ...Damon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
Angel
>>
>> How do you figure having access to the latest novels or whatever you want
> to read is a basic human rite. In which constitution does it say this? If
> you can't read print you can either purchase a scanner and reading software,
> or go to the library and use their equipment for such pursuits. Though
> basic literacy has been found to be a basic human rite being able to read
> your favorite novel is not.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Damon"
>> > Yes, it's a shame isn't it.
>> >
>> > I download illegally shared eBooks too because I can't read print.
>> >
>> > Access to knowledge and culture is a human right and, I'd say we can't
>> > really describe it as thievery. I'd describe it as taking something
>> > that should rightfully be in our domain anyway.
>> >
>> > It's only thievery if one can get it thru the normal means. If you
>> > are denied access to it, yet fundamentally it should be a human right,
>> > then
>> you
>> > have to be creative and inventive about gaining access to it.
>> >
>> > ...Damon
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Angel"
>> >
>> > > I would hate to think that to become a part of society one must
>> > > resort
>> to
>> > > thievery.
>> > > ----- Original Message -----
>> > > From: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >
>> > > > I use exactly the same argument regarding downloading tv shows on
>> > > BitTorrent. If the manufacturers and service providers of things
>> > > like
>> > TiVo
>> > > and Sky Digital don't bother to make their products accessible then
>> > > I'll steal their content from elsewhere in order that I can be part
>> > > of this
>> > here
>> > > society. Thank you. And yes I'd be happy to see what a courtroom
>> > > made
>> of
>> > > that too.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > Of Tyrer, Jonathan
>> > > > Sent: 13 April 2005 15:42
>> > > > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > > > Subject: [access-uk] Re: iPod shuffle ready to go?
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > I wonder if I should turn myself into the police for pirating
>> > > > music
>> from
>> > > the Net. None of the pay for music sites are accessible so I am
>> > > forced
>> to
>> > > steal music instead. I'd like to go to court for that I think!
>> > > >
>> > > > JT
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > Damon Rose
>> > > >
>> > > > Here's another solution. Why don't we just all sue Apple? Or
>> > > > mail
>> them
>> > > in our droves? All the faffing around we have to do to gain a weeny
>> > > bit
>> > of
>> > > access, whilst still giving these companies our money, really really
>> bugs
>> > > the hell out of me.
>> > > >
>> > > > -----Original Message-----
>
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