Cross a border, lose your ebooks

I think you have.

I am reminded of how the record industry tried to shut down second hand record stores, how the games industry is still trying to kill the second hand game trade, and even how when I was a kid role playing publishers tried to forbid making photocopies of their “official” character sheets.

Or how about Jack Valenti’s famed rant about the video-recorder being equivalent to the Boston Strangler? Or the whole campaign to demonise cassette tapes? Copyright is a legal construct that was designed to protect publishers, one that gets creakier with age with each innovation that makes publishing easier.

But hey, we’re here at BoingBoing, where Cory has studied this issue and written eloquently about it time and time again. Why not browse the archives? :smile_cat:

side note: the BBS emoji are fun…