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Date Posted: 20:16:08 04/06/04 Tue
Author: Nate Hewitt
Subject: Re: Week10 - Topic #1 - R17 by Coyle/She's Wrong
In reply to: James Wigington 's message, "Re: Week10 - Topic #1 - R17 by Coyle/She's Wrong" on 13:41:47 04/04/04 Sun

This is true, James, however, they at least let you read the nutshell. Internet porn sites get you to subscribe by letting you take the free tour! or so I'm told...

>What surprised me the most is that she made a
>statement that I beleive is flat out wrong. She made
>the statment in her article that
>"Because there is not, as yet, a way to charge people
>for the documents they access over the Internet, and
>there is no way to keep them from making copies of
>digital documents once they have received them."
>
>This is not true. A growing minority of newspapers
>won't let you view the articles on thier site without
>paying for them. They will let you see the beginning
>of the article, but to view the rest, you must be a
>paid subscriber. If you go fortune 500 magazines
>website, you have to pay the download the list. It is
>quite easy to charge people to view information on the
>interent (Internet Pornography would die if you
>couldn't make people pa to view documents on the
>internet.
>
>
>
>>In Karen Coyle�s article �Copyright in the Digital
>>Age� (R17), she raises a number of points about
>>copyright, about fair use, and about how libraries
>>will be affected in the digital age. What surprised
>>you the most, or with which point were you most
>>impressed?

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