From: Tanner Burson Date: 2007-03-23T02:05:05+09:00 Subject: Re: free pdf ebook ------=_Part_173221_13256734.1174583101877 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 3/22/07, Kyle Schmitt wrote: > > Really? What type of crime is it. Completely off topic, but it's > interesting. The same kind of crime it is in the United States I imagine, civil copyright infringement. This is getting way OT, but google for essays by Lawrence Lessig for a lot more information on the differences between theft and copyright infringement. On 3/22/07, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote: > > * Kyle Schmitt, 22.03.2007 16:56: > > > And don't ask people to participate in theft like that. > > > > I'd suggest not to use the term "theft" in this context because for > > example in Germany to commit a theft ("Diebstahl") you need to take > > away something physical (and movable) from someone else. This does > > not mean that in Germany it is no crime to download the book but only > > means that downloading it is a different kind of crime. I'd suggest > > simply writing it "unethical and illegal acts like that". > > > > Besides this I would suggest printed works because the have an > > indisputable advantage compared to PDFs: You can read them without > > displaying them on a computer. This means > > > > a) You can read them where using a computer (not even a laptop) is > > not a good idea. > > b) You can have the book on your desktop and not covering valuable > > room on you screen. > > > > Suggestions for books: > > > > - "Programming Ruby" von Dave Thomas et al. > > > > - "Ruby Cookbook" by Carlson & Richardson > > > > If you are into Rails perhaps also > > > > - "Agile Web Development with Rails" by Hansson > > > > Josef 'Jupp' Schugt > > -- > > Blog available at http://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-schugtjo/blog/ > > PGP key with id 6CC6574F available at http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net/ > > > > > > > > -- ===Tanner Burson=== tanner.burson@gmail.com http://www.tannerburson.com ------=_Part_173221_13256734.1174583101877--