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• Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
  Stevie: I wouldn't like to be in that eBay seller's shoes when Nora Roberts' publisher's lawyers find out who they are! (Some people will sell anything legal or not -- I am informed that someone actually took warez copies of Stephenie Meye's "Twilight" books, all of them, wrapped them in an ebook reader app, and tried to sell them through the Apple App Store to iPhone users!)...
• Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
  Look around for torrents and you will trip over "My favorite 5000 SF novels" every five seconds. Or torrents of 500Mb audiobooks....
• Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
  Your personal imports are indeed okay -- because you presumably paid for them in the licensed territory. (Nor is anyone going to go after punters for buying grey-market imports.)...
• krc [clowersnet.net] commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
  Torrents are usually large collections. Single books (or small collection - trilogies, etc.) are often shared on image boards by putting the book in a rar or zip and embedding it in an image (often a picture of the book cover). 'cat book.rar >> image.jpg'. Image viewers ignore the rar at the end, while the decompression programs ignore the image at the beginning....
• errolwi commented on CMAP #4: Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
  tp1024, Fly-by-wire = commands sent to the motors that actually move the control surfaces etc via electronic signals carried by wire. As opposed to using the physical movement of cables (attached to control column, throttle etc) to activate the motors (or directly move things on smaller aircraft). What's the literal translation of the German for FBW?...