It's tough, really. With all the recent SOPA stuff (I was firmly on the side opposing SOPA) there has been a lot of meditating, contemplating, and half-assed rants about the whole piracy and intellectual property rights mess.
So I found a copy of Free Ride by Robert Levine at the local public library and decided to check it out. It's well-written, if not all that convincing. Nonetheless, I can't help but wonder what Robert Levine would think about the fact that I checked this book out for zero cost at a public library. The heart of the issue is so much more complex, isn't it? I mean, there are books at the library that I would gladly spend 5 or 10 bucks to "rent"--and then there are books like this, that I came across almost by accident and decided to check out.
There are books I have checked out from the library that I have subsequently gone on to buy (Visualizing Data being the latest). I just prefer to sample stuff first.
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