[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.