The New York Times on Monday ran an article comparing Amazon.com's used book marketplace to Napster. The fact that you can use this service to find used copies of almost any book (or CD, or whatever) worries authors and publishing consultants. One of the latter said, "Used books are to consumer books as Napster was to the music industry."

( Is that a fair comparison? )

Tags: copyright, music

According to today's New York Times, soldiers in Iraq have "a communal computer where 12.8 gigabites of tunes had been downloaded for sharing on MP3's. The rule was simple: Take some music, add some music."

This is clearly illegal file-sharing, so one assumes the RIAA is already moving to shut it down?

Tags: copyright, music, stupidity