Reply To: Political Statements
Roger Parloff, the author of the article, has written many pro-DMCA articles over the course of many years. Fortune is owned by Time Warner (including the Warner Music Group), which is a member of the RIAA. The RIAA’s membership also includes EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group. What a collection of huge corporate sponsors!
Regarding the remark “about all that is free is that one can read most (but not all!) of them online,” what else — other than read — do you actually plan to do with a textbook? The promised payload of the device is embedded in the noun itself: textbook!