[WEB4LIB] Re: Napster Question (Was Audio Books Being Shared)

[Jerry Kuntz]

Hey, I just got the dime in the mail from Eric, too! Actually, the thread
came around to the point that there are emerging technologies that could
preserve copyright in a napster-like distributed environment. BTW, my
original post on the topic wasn't anti-Napster; it was just pointing out the
likely alarm with which the ebook industry is viewing Napster and how that
might effect the technologies *they* will use to develop their encryption
schemes...which might make the development of ebook servers for libraries
that will allow sharing and downloading much more problematic.
As for the Grateful Dead being a model for life beyond copyright, that seems
like an unrealistic solution for authors, unless John Updike plays a really
groovy guitar.
Jerry Kuntz
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org


----- Original Message -----
From: Debra Shapiro <dshapiro at slis.wisc.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 11:50 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Napster Question (Was Audio Books Being Shared)


> Just to add a little more fun to the mix, (and incidentally congrats
> to Jerry Kuntz & Eric Hellman & Allan Barclay for being able to get a
> little argumentative and remain good natured) take a look at this
> article about using the Napster model for ILL:
>
> docster: instant document delivery
> Daniel Chudnov
> http://www.haplr-index.com/docster.htm
>
> (I don't know what the connection between this article & its writer
> and Thomas Hennen of HAPLR index is, except perhaps that they are
> both controversial in the library world at the moment.....<grin>)
>
> Debra.
> dshapiro at slis.wisc.edu
> Debra Shapiro
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