Comments on: Web-Scabs http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/ Linux, politics, and other interesting things Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:45:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DMCA and Sci-Fi | etbe http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/comment-page-1/#comment-3983 DMCA and Sci-Fi | etbe Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:54:33 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/#comment-3983 [...] » Easy search on Planet Debian and Planet Ubuntu on Google Custom Search Engineetbe on Web-ScabsThoughts by Ted » Blog Archive » How to properly support writers/artists? on [...] [...] » Easy search on Planet Debian and Planet Ubuntu on Google Custom Search Engineetbe on Web-ScabsThoughts by Ted » Blog Archive » How to properly support writers/artists? on [...]

]]> By: etbe http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/comment-page-1/#comment-3806 etbe Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:54:16 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/#comment-3806 Russ: I am not going to cease reading novels. I am merely going to change my priorities for selecting which novels to read, and add a significant weight to the author's attitudes when selecting which novel to read next. If it turns out that the time taken to read online novels exceeds my time available for reading then I will probably cease buying books. Russ: I am not going to cease reading novels. I am merely going to change my priorities for selecting which novels to read, and add a significant weight to the author’s attitudes when selecting which novel to read next.

If it turns out that the time taken to read online novels exceeds my time available for reading then I will probably cease buying books.

]]> By: Thoughts by Ted » Blog Archive » How to properly support writers/artists? http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/comment-page-1/#comment-3782 Thoughts by Ted » Blog Archive » How to properly support writers/artists? Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:47:36 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/#comment-3782 [...] Coker, commenting on my last blog, and apparently after exploring some of the links stemming from the SFWA kerfuflle, apparently [...] [...] Coker, commenting on my last blog, and apparently after exploring some of the links stemming from the SFWA kerfuflle, apparently [...]

]]> By: Russ Allbery http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/comment-page-1/#comment-3493 Russ Allbery Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:13:18 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/#comment-3493 Deciding not to read any more SF novels until you've read all the free books you want to read when many SF authors aren't members of SFWA precisely because of this and others are to try to vote for people like John Scalzi in SFWA elections to try to get rid of this nonsense strikes me as a bit counter-productive. SFWA doesn't speak for the entire SF book industry. In fact, that's a large amount of the problem here; SFWA speaks for a very odd and peculiar subset of the published SF writers. Every SF author whose non-fiction writings I follow regularly who's expressed an opinion has pretty much said that SFWA were idiots here. I think SFWA is fast losing relevance. Deciding not to read any more SF novels until you’ve read all the free books you want to read when many SF authors aren’t members of SFWA precisely because of this and others are to try to vote for people like John Scalzi in SFWA elections to try to get rid of this nonsense strikes me as a bit counter-productive. SFWA doesn’t speak for the entire SF book industry. In fact, that’s a large amount of the problem here; SFWA speaks for a very odd and peculiar subset of the published SF writers.

Every SF author whose non-fiction writings I follow regularly who’s expressed an opinion has pretty much said that SFWA were idiots here. I think SFWA is fast losing relevance.

]]> By: Robert Thau http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/comment-page-1/#comment-3249 Robert Thau Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:55:56 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/#comment-3249 A minor correction: the author of the screed in your footnote [6] *was* the current VP of SFWA at the time he wrote it, but he no longer is. The current incumbent in the position, Andrew Burt, has a bit more knowledge of net-related matters, but so far, that's been a dangerous thing; he happens to also be the clueless git that sent out the DMCA notices that provoked the furor. (The organization's "epiracy prevention" activities, BTW, have been suspended, pending review). A minor correction: the author of the screed in your footnote [6] *was* the current VP of SFWA at the time he wrote it, but he no longer is. The current incumbent in the position, Andrew Burt, has a bit more knowledge of net-related matters, but so far, that’s been a dangerous thing; he happens to also be the clueless git that sent out the DMCA notices that provoked the furor. (The organization’s “epiracy prevention” activities, BTW, have been suspended, pending review).

]]> By: JA http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/comment-page-1/#comment-3240 JA Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:47:15 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/17/web-scabs/#comment-3240 Russel, since you seem open to the notion of CC licensed fiction, I wonder if you might not like <a href="http://www.SanCairoDiCopenhagen.com/tbpmd.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>. Russel, since you seem open to the notion of CC licensed fiction, I wonder if you might not like this.

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