Poll: Neil Gaiman on Piracy.

[lucky_bob45]

so wait, having a friend come up to and say "I just read this book, i love it, you should really check this out" and going to the pirate bay and searching "Neil Gaiman" are the same thing now?

 

[lucky_bob45]

so wait, having a friend come up to and say "I just read this book, i love it, you should really check this out" and going to the pirate bay and searching "Neil Gaiman" are the same thing now?

If the friend gives you the book, yes. You got something that you are meant to pay money for for free.

Yeah, but the thought i was trying to express is that if you're searching for a torrent for something, you likely have some prior exposure to it, you know enough about it to want it. A friend can be lending you a book that you've never heard of, have no exposure to and probably wouldn't think to download a torrent full of the authors work.

 

[barash]

I'd hever heard Neil Gaiman speak before, although I personally own a couple of his books, and that man just convinced me to buy all of his books, just by being calm and rational.

And he's quite an excellent speaker, besides.

He was travelling and doing promo-readings from American Gods before it went to print, and he happened to do one at one of my favorite pubs in Oslo. He read two (or three, long ago ^_^) full chapters and hell yea, a very excellent speaker indeed.