Oh, no, you're kidding

So... ebooks have advanced to the point that pro writers and the publishing industry are suddenly discovering and rehashing the exactly same moral/legal/technical/etc issues that pro musicians and the music industry have been publically tying themselves into knots over FOR THE PAST DOZEN YEARS, are they? And... not showing any signs of having paid attention, learnt lessons, or examined what hard data exists (as opposed to simply making assumptions about who downloaders are, why they do what they do, and what the knock-on effect really is)?

Just checking.

The last person I talked to seriously about this stuff was of the opinion that publishing would figure it out faster, because they have less to lose than music and film, even so. I should have been more cynical and pointed out that publishing is both WAY more conservative and WAY less technically proficient.

It has been instructive

To hear people in various parts of the world complain about snow, this winter - my sense is that it has been quite snowy on a global, well, hemispheric basis. Instructive, because the amounts of snow involved are typically referred to in Montreal as "Monday morning." XD "One of those Monday mornings," at a stretch.

I mean, ppl complain about snow removal here! It's a whip-out-the-measuring-tape comparison sport between municipalities. But there aren't that many cities that keep trucking through six inches of snow a day, every day, for a week straight, 3-4 times in a bad winter, barely blinking at a mere 3-4 inch dump. Toronto doesn't do it, even. We kind of make fun of Toronto.