It has the full text of the book without any indication that the webmaster has received OSC's permission to "publish" the book online.
I know OSC gives free chapters of his books online and is generally pretty generous with his materials, but I think this is going too far.
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Dang Coloradans! I'll get the pitchfork, you get the blazing torches, and somebody get the string, so we can string 'em up!
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Um, he talked about this in one of the threads in the other side of the forum...
I can't remember his words for sure, so I'll probably slaughter what he really means. He said something like 'I figure that if a person reads my book for free and they like it, they'll go out and buy their own copy. And if they don't like it, they didn't waste any money, did they?'
I know, I'll just go and find that thread and send you there. ^_^
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He has said he wasn't that worried about piracy, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't take a few seconds to send a cease and desist letter to that website. Big difference between spending your time hunting down pirates and having one handed to you.
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That does sound like something OSC would say. Even if OSC doesn't care that much, wouldn't his publishers be upset?
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Actually, hanging is the traditional punishment for piracy; usually from the yardarm of a Royal Navy man-o-war. Keelhauling is an internal punishment used on misbehaving sailors; walking the plank is what pirates did to each other to enforce discipline.
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Wow. It's 4:30 in the morning here; I clicked on the link to see where Ender's Game had been posted, and the first few paragraphs hooked me all over again, so strongly that I couldn't stop reading until I got all the way through. This is at least the fifth time I've read the book, probably more. I have to wake up at 8:30 in the morning... only four hours of sleep. Worth it, though. Ender's Game is one of the books that I consider a true masterpiece.
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Actually, there's no reliable evidence that walking the plank was ever practiced at all. Oh, and pirates didn't go around burying their treasure, either. They spent it instead. Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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Pirates spent their swag on wild women and alcoholic beverages and gambling, primarily. So they were pretty much like most writers (the nonMormon ones, anyway <grin>).
I take this kind of thing pretty seriously. If >I< put up a work of mine online, that's my business - I think it wouldn't hurt sales of my books, etc. But I would put it up on my own site, as part of the online community I support, and it would be at my option.
I don't appreciate people who appropriate my work without permission to put on THEIR site in order to gain whatever advantage they get. To pose as a public benefactor by taking someone else's work without permission strikes me as hypocritical. The public benefits from reasonable copyright laws - and leaving a writer with ownership and control of his own works during his own lifetime seems eminently reasonable to me.
So we will take action to try to get this website taken down as quickly as possible.
If you want a free copy of Ender's Game, check it out at the public library. My work is distributed free all the time - that way.
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quote:Pirates spent their swag on wild women and alcoholic beverages and gambling, primarily. So they were pretty much like most writers (the nonMormon ones, anyway <grin>).
I didn't even know they had Mormon pirates. That's kind of a strange concept, but I suppose--oh, wait, you meant writers. Non-Mormon writers. Never mind. Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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