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One thing he knows about everyone who downloads his books on the Internet without permission is that they're readers, they're people who love books. Neil went on to say that he was part of the tribe of readers, the tiny minority of people in the world who read for pleasure, buying books because they love them.
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I buy t-shirts with their book-covers on them. When it comes to my favorite writers, there's no boundaries: I'll buy every book they publish, just to own it (sometimes I buy two or three, to give away to friends who must read those books).
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He said, "Hands up in the audience if you discovered your favorite writer for free - because someone loaned you a copy, or because someone gave it to you? Now, hands up if you found your favorite writer by walking into a store and plunking down cash." Overwhelmingly, the audience said that they'd discovered their favorite writers for free, on a loan or as a gift. I recently saw Neil Gaiman give a talk at which someone asked him how he felt about piracy of his books. Do your part in ensuring your digital rights by running a relay and becoming part of the network. The more TOR relays that exist around the globe, the more immune we all are to the government/corporate censorship we are witnessing. Democracy cannot exist if people cannot speak freely without fear of reprisal. Perhaps the most important of these is The tor project which permits private and anonymous communications. The entertainment industry has tried to criminalize peer-to-peer technologies for years, but what is happening with WikiLeaks makes it more essential *now*, than ever before, that we adopt open source peer-to-peer technologies on a large scale.
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It also clearly demonstrates that we live in a world where our personal communications can readily be disrupted at the whim of private corporations under pressure from these same politicians. The WikiLeaks drama is showing us how readily our own politicians will abandon core values of democracy in order to avoid embarrassment. Thomas Jefferson said, "Information is the currency of democracy".