url URL date not supplied we did a great panel on drm and the digital hub yesterday here at osxcon with tim o reilly victor nemachek from el gato makers of the eyetv digital tv recorder for the mac dan gillmor and jd lasica who s working on a book on fair use and copyfights glenn NUMBER NUMBERb networking news fleishman took great notes through the talk dan tim you re a content or copyright holder talk about these issues obscurity can be a tool something like NUMBERk books published in the us most books are forgotten after publication ravening copying theft is wrong most aren t pirated publishers puts book that someone sweated over for years on shelves for three months doesn t sell that s it and the author has no rights publishers keeps rights til out of print etc oblivion is fate of most books piracy would be the best thing for those books people wouldn t pirate them in general because people generally like to respect the rights of creators piracy is a marginal act it takes away some of the cream publishing won t go away but it will change the idea of who is a publisher early on in the web the idea was that everyone could be a publisher the way in which web sites interact with publishers is often very much like the way that book publishers try to get placement and position in bookstores publishing is aggregation people will re emerge as publishers will hollywood be the publishers of the future or will someone else users are voting by their use of programs like kazaa eventually media companies will adopt but if the changes are hardcoded into law then we re stuck for a long time with some mistakes link NUMBER discuss NUMBER _via dan gillmor s ejournal NUMBER _ NUMBER URL NUMBER URL NUMBER URL 