tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post7050250067862727967..comments2024-03-22T08:01:16.236-04:00Comments on Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: Farhad Manjoo as unrepentant but less frequent BittorrenterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-10700884712988652802011-07-27T11:23:33.760-04:002011-07-27T11:23:33.760-04:00I think that's fair--though Lawrence Liang has...I think that's fair--though Lawrence Liang has written interestingly about challenges of consumption and creatively overcoming them for people/groups who don't regularly have access to high bandwidth.Rebecca Tushnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17344226000864611148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-38687608424570982502011-07-27T11:09:41.415-04:002011-07-27T11:09:41.415-04:00I think that's a consumption vs. creation diff...I think that's a consumption vs. creation difference, though. I don't want my consumption to be any trickier than it needs to be--and we've all seen how making it very easy to extract money from people works (iTunes, Amazon's and other outlets' ebook sales). I happily buy digital music where eight or ten years ago I was pirating it, because I wasn't pirating to save money; I was pirating because there weren't venues for legal sales, and I wanted the digital files with no hard copy to throw out.<br /><br />Whereas setting out to a creative endeavor is an entirely different headspace, and one in which I'm sure he (as a writer, after all) wouldn't prefer a no-work version. I mean, a no-work version of creating is--what, full-on plagiarism? Not quite the same as the piracy/legitimate-source divide, I think.Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03120165937428117931noreply@blogger.com