From: Matt Long <robothor@...>
Date: 2006-05-16T07:55:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ticked Off

Philip Greenspun has an innovative solution to this problem: http:// 
philip.greenspun.com/copyright/hall-of-shame.html

He is a (among other things) a photographer and web guru.  His  
solution was an online hall of shame where he would post who has  
stolen his pictures.

Perhaps something similar might be in order for this if real names or  
net handles can be identified?  I don't have David Black's book, but  
I do have several other PragProg books & these have a "Prepared  
for ..." at the bottom -- any idea whether the shared copies have  
this removed?

There really isn't a technical solution to prevent this from  
happening, but public shaming might work...

Matt

On 15 May , 2006, at 5:06 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> Okay, I'll admit it. I'm really pissed off. I don't pay attention to
> what goes on on the #ruby-talk IRC channel these days all that much,
> but something happened this afternoon that thoroughly pissed me off.
>
>  [0515/16.53] hatezilla: seriously, pick it up. if you're iffy, get
> on emule and search
>  for "ruby for rails" ... there's tons of pdfs floating around if you
> know where to look
>
> I consider David Black a friend of mine. I am *seriously* pissed off
> that some pissant little freak would advocate this action at all. I
> was similarly annoyed that people reacted as badly to Dave Thomas's
> announcement that the Rails 2nd Edition would be the same price. These
> people have done a *lot* for the Ruby community.
>
> They deserve your financial support. Don't be a pissant thief. Even
> temporarily. There are "sample chapters" for a reason.
>
> -austin
> -- 
> Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
>               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca
>

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