On 7/6/06, Bowerbird@aol.com <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
cory doctorow said:
science fiction is the only literature people care enough about to steal on the Internet. It's the only literature that regularly shows up, scanned and run through optical character recognition software and lovingly hand-edited on darknet newsgroups, Russian websites, IRC channels and elsewhere.
you can find the whole article at:
http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/07DoctorowCommentary.html
An odd article, because the title really has nothing to do with the rest of the text. In a way this is good, because the title is incorrect. There's plenty of non-Science Fiction being 'stolen' on the internet, all the way from technical manuals, scans of magazines (both porn and non-porn), and non-fiction, to literary fiction. It's probably true that SciFi is over-represented, but that's a more subtle and interesting point. -- Jon Ingram