al said:
IMO - what bowerbird is proposing is outright theft.
i guess it's silly season here on the project gutenberg listserve. people are quite casual lately tossing about the "t" word ("theft!"). won't somebody please come train the firehose on this attack-dog so i don't have to? some elementary public-domain f.a.q. will do. in the meantime, as i have "confessed" before, i've mounted some of roger's scansets on my own site, so if roger has a problem with me doing that, he should send me a cease-and-desist. (kidding, of course, which should be obvious since i hate lawyers so much; roger can just send an e-mail, and we can discuss it all friendly.)
His apparent "holier-than-thou" attitude doesn't make up for that.
well, at least when i accuse someone of a moral shortcoming, i provide _evidence_, instead of just making some bogus claim.
Speaking both personally and as a Whitewasher, I wouldn't touch such files with the proverbial ten-foot pole.
gee, al, we certainly wouldn't want you, either personally or as a capital-w whitewasher, to get involved with _criminal_activity._ one day you're letting your parking meter run out prematurely, and the next day you're dealing in public-domain scansets, and the next day the russian mafia has got your sorry ass in a sling. can't be too careful. good thing you have a 10-foot pole handy. *** donovan said:
experience has shown that any discussion of DP on gutvol-d generally and unfortunately serves little productive purpose. While positive and insightful comments do occur, (and are read and appreciated!), they are easily lost in the background of posts which far too often contain derision, belittlement, accusation, and misrepresentation.
and again, i wish i could just toss out a phalanx of terms like "derision, belittlement, accusation, and misrepresentation" with a wave of the hand. but when i say something like that, i feel a very strong need to back the charges with _evidence_. because when the derision (and the belittlement) is _deserved_, then the "accusations" are not a "misrepresentation", but indeed a clear-cut indictment. beware the person who doesn't want to discuss the charges, but merely have them dismissed as a "misrepresentation"... -bowerbird