Tim O’Reilly on Piracy and Online Distribution

/. pointed the way to This One by Tim O\’Reilly on online file sharing. He offers a few thoughts as an author and publisher.

Lesson 1: Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy

Lesson 2: Piracy is progressive taxation

Lesson 3: Customers want to do the right thing, if they can.

Lesson 4: Shoplifting is a bigger threat than piracy.

Lesson 5: File sharing networks don\’t threaten book, music, or film publishing. They threaten existing publishers.

Lesson 6: \”Free\” is eventually replaced by a higher-quality paid service

Lesson 7: There\’s more than one way to do it.

December 12, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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