05-08-2013, 02:29 AM
I started a thread like this, on the old forum, about Napster & 45s I owned. It went on for several pages as I recall. This was not a poll, but the bottom line consensus was that, no, if I owned the 45 of a song it was not morally okay to download the mp3.
My big problem with eBooks is (a) lack of availability (though it's like CDs in their infancy; the publishers will eventually catch up, which brings me to... (b) lack of proper editing. That is, there's glaring errors in a lot of eBooks I buy -- things that look like bad OCR -- "a1l" for "all" and similar. Shit that a simple read-thru would fix.
It's like they have an intern, a page scanner, and a deadline, and that's all they give a frak about.
My big problem with eBooks is (a) lack of availability (though it's like CDs in their infancy; the publishers will eventually catch up, which brings me to... (b) lack of proper editing. That is, there's glaring errors in a lot of eBooks I buy -- things that look like bad OCR -- "a1l" for "all" and similar. Shit that a simple read-thru would fix.
It's like they have an intern, a page scanner, and a deadline, and that's all they give a frak about.