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  Book exec steals Google laptops to "teach lesson" about theft
Time: 12:55 EST/17:55 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Michael Dragone

Richard Charkin is an unrepentant thief. Charkin, a UK executive with publisher Macmillan, attended last week's Book Expo America in New York and decided to make his feelings about Google Book Search clear by teaching Google a lesson: he stole two of the company's laptops.

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#1 By 6859 (206.156.242.36) at Friday, June 08, 2007 03:06:12 PM
Very bad analogy. It's not theft, it's infringement. But I see where he's going: it's easier to mock-up theft to prove a point than IP infringement.

#2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, June 08, 2007 03:21:37 PM
All of these big media execs mis-characterize infringement as theft as that will get them more sympathy when they're crying in front of Congress for new laws.

#3 By 32132 (142.32.208.234) at Friday, June 08, 2007 03:58:50 PM
"Lessig also points out that making a copy of a digital work is essentially different from stealing someone's laptop; when the laptop disappears, the user no longer has access to it and has lost something important and costly. The same is not true when Google scans a book. "

Would Lessig allow Charkin to remove the hard drive from the laptop, copy it, and post all the info on the web if he returned the laptop and drive?

#4 By 1401 (65.255.137.29) at Friday, June 08, 2007 04:25:39 PM
I once stole a pair of underwear from a woman. I taught her a lesson!

#5 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at Friday, June 08, 2007 11:13:25 PM
i once met a girl at a bar, and later found out she wasn't wearing any underwear.

thanks chris! i probably went over the same lesson material with her.

This post was edited by mooresa56 on Friday, June 08, 2007 at 23:14.

#6 By 12071 (203.206.228.94) at Friday, June 08, 2007 11:13:50 PM
#1 The **AA use the exact same flawed analogy - works well on the idiots who don't know any better.

#4 I don't want to know what she learnt from that!



 

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