Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 02:35:48 -0600 Message-ID: <56AF18FE.2126@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:36:14 -0800 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Hey Odd! References: <56AF1152.65BE@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 71 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.239.141.5 X-Trace: sv3-I4IjgxfcJh/+SIbLbZ37uDKQpO7pJcbOMPBsz533VHtYtacajRBhdWkGJhEM6Viup7NoT6aMHRDSJxs!FjNUdfJqx/BQYPrycCJHQm/FSqv3SKOPTwNvQ/RBtLxGOs+HcHmv6WhH3pJDww0/HCCq3tahNUS1!c1VtwS3SoA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4257 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:281681 sci.physics:549670 sci.physics.relativity:375338 rec.arts.sf.written:432421 The Starmaker wrote: > > Fabian Russell wrote: > > > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:48:23 -0600, Odd Bodkin wrote: > > > > > > > > I have no problem with books. I own both paper and digital books. I do > > > have a problem with greed and the Collector's Obsession. I do have a > > > problem with stealing to feed the Collector's Obsession. I do have a > > > problem with those who would rationalize and excuse their thefts, > > > claiming somehow this is the manly thing to do. > > > > > > > Obsession? Theft? You are pulling things out of the air again, > > and that's a bad habit. > > > > Take a deep breath. Get a grip on reality. > > > > Then start building your own E-LOC and learn to love it. > > It's called, trying to diminish you...den·i·grate. It's how Donald Trump deals with those that oppose him. > > The Internet wishes to be free. That means the internet has a strong desire for > information in any form to be free...music, movies, books, ideas. > > For example, epub. > > actually is a zip file filled with html files. > > Just change the extension of any epub from xxxxx.epub to .xxxxx.zip > > then unzip it. > > For example, some directory publisher published a directory book, > how do you extract all email addresses and data from the pages of a big directory ? > then finally came out with a epub of the book. > > Now, unzipping it gave me access to all it's email addresses, and names and address > in this directory that is easily extracted. > > The Internet wishes to be free. > > (i bet a million dollars that if the publisher knew that > his book can be uzipped and information extracted easily in a second, he would have never had it > turn into a ebook.) > > The Internet wishes to be free. Like for an example...here is a real world example.. there is a book called: Writer's Market 2016: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published 95th Edition At Amazon they have the Book and the ebook epub version. You can take the epub, change the extension to zip and you have all the email address and names and addresses you need to market your science fiction stories in a second. http://www.amazon.com/Writers-Market-2016-Trusted-Published/dp/1599639378/ref=pd_sim_14_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=51Tq-Z193qL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR122%2C160_&refRID=1J134H9SAFRQAXNFGYCS (of course the epub is avaialbe for free if you know where to look, the internet wishes to be free) Writers.Market.2016.The.Most.Trusted.Guide.to.Getting.Published.epub email extraction tools