[pct-l] beat a dead copyright to death

[Jim Banks]

Very disturbing.  You say you abide by the law except where you disagree
with the law.  You say you are sick and tired of corporate America.  I am
sick and tired of people like you!

I-Beam 

-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Glen Winters
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:05 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] beat a dead copyright to death

Just had too put my 2 cents in. I have bought and paid for WP books and
Yogi's handbook, I have also used Halfmile's maps. I think its the right
thing to do, but copyright laws and patent laws are supposed to be for the
public good, and it is good that Yogi and Eric the Black and others should
be able to sell their creations at whatever price they wish, including
Halfmile's decision to make a gift of his time and effort, we may choose to
pay or not to have them. As WP books are no longer in print (correct me if
I'm wrong) I would personally copy the maps if those are the maps I wanted
to use on my hike (Halfmiles maps are much better), if still in print then
buy them. I believe copyright laws should be enforced to compensate the
creator, publishers artists, etc for their time and effort, but, copyright
law has been modified by congress to protect Disney from decreased revenue
not to aid the general public. I believe in freedom of information, has
anyone  looked at project Gutenberg. We the people of the world lost a great
deal of what would have been freely available classics because of corporate
greed. If Yogi stopped printing her books tomorrow should we the hiking
community lose access to her valuable guides? That is where I disagree with
current laws and would violate the law. In reality it will cost you more to
steal these works then to pay the author for their books, if you want WP
maps it would be far cheaper in time and money if you can find a copy to buy
then to try to copy the maps.


Sorry for the rant just sick and tired of corporate America. Patent the idea
of single click makes me sick. Don't get me started on patent law or ULA's.

Argentina

PS. If your still looking at options for maps books etc needed to hike the
trail, almost any of the options will work, but you don't need every option
pick a set of maps and a guide books. or a map guide book combo or just
maps, if you decide to hike the whole trail it will happen if you are unable
to finish the hike this year an extra guide book won't help.
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