| Author | Message | ||
     Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
http://www.truly-free.org/ Scroll down to the C section. They have you novel THE DARKEST PARTS OF THE WOOD for free download. Surely against the law? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Thanks, Albie! I'm sending in the heavies. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.49.72 |
Blimey, that page all looks a bit illegal. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.49.72 |
...and the guy who runs it has got the cheek to ask for money as well! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.240.84 |
Issues of copyright in this new digital era are going to be very rough and touchy areas, I can see.... I'm appalled by this site. People should go and check these books out of libraries like everyone else.  | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Well, indeed. If they do the author gets PLR. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
>>I'm sending in the heavies. Send Tubby, Ramsey! Even worse. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.225.22 |
I would send the thing in the weelchair from "Reply Guaranteed". | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.197.167 |
If all else fails, send in Mackintosh Willy. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Send Jenny to do some Karate on 'em. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.45.220 |
I think Zoe Ball -you know, her out of KILL BILL -should get them, with her dad...Johnny Morris. His animals did good maths with his voice. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.114.169 |
DARKEST PARTS OF THE WOOD still being given away? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Working on it... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Maybe I'm being naive, but how do they get hold of all the text? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I've heard that the printers sell it on. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.14.192 |
I'd imagine they scan it, Gary, then throw the file on PC, where a text reader would convert it. They do have to get hold of the book in the first place, so presumably someone did get paid at some point, which I suppose is small comfort. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
They have Stephen King's ON WRITING too. Which I downloaded....just to check it is the real thing, of course. Mmmm, still not sure. better read on a bit... | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.170 |
In the shadier places of the internet you'll find that sweaty nerds with too much free time busy themselves with scanning and ocr-ing books (mainly fantasy/sf/horror), comics and manga. It might be that someone originally bought the book but they could just as well come from a library. How do I know, well I admit that I hunted down a set of uncollected JD Salinger tales, once I learned of its existence. There is no other way to read these stories. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Yet another reason why the Internet needs to be shut down. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I downloaded some comics that were just impossible to ever get. And were never going to be reprinted. HEY! I bought that comic for years. I deserved it. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.221.167 |
Can you drop one of those electronic book reader thingies and it still survive? I suggest we put them to the test. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
More crucially, can it survive being dropped off a tall building into a canal, then fished out a week later? The result doesn't matter that much. it's just the fun of trying. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.85.217 |
It seems Tom and Albie - and Nosferatu - are witness to the overall societal benefits of bootlegging.... |