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		<title>By: Graphic Designer</title>
		<link>http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/09/19/a-vast-wasteland/#comment-242773</link>
		<dc:creator>Graphic Designer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Salon.com learned their lesson, too, probably at great cost to their formerly loyal readers&#039; good will.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salon.com learned their lesson, too, probably at great cost to their formerly loyal readers&#8217; good will.</p>
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		<title>By: Leo Klein</title>
		<link>http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/09/19/a-vast-wasteland/#comment-237241</link>
		<dc:creator>Leo Klein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, the endless extension of copyright is a form of piracy -- from the Public Domain.

It&#039;s amazing that we can legally make available material only from the early 1920&#039;s or earlier.

That tells you a thing or two about what&#039;s wrong with media ownership in this country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, the endless extension of copyright is a form of piracy &#8212; from the Public Domain.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s amazing that we can legally make available material only from the early 1920&#8217;s or earlier.</p>
<p>That tells you a thing or two about what&#8217;s wrong with media ownership in this country.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric the .5b</title>
		<link>http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/09/19/a-vast-wasteland/#comment-236574</link>
		<dc:creator>Eric the .5b</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I miss the old pirates who just admitted they wanted booty and didn&#039;t go into endless rounds of justifying themselves. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I miss the old pirates who just admitted they wanted booty and didn&#8217;t go into endless rounds of justifying themselves. :)</p>
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		<title>By: zeldman</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice work, sir.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice work, sir.</p>
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		<title>By: Ralph Brandi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ralph Brandi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Best. Talk Like a Pirate. Post. Ever.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Best. Talk Like a Pirate. Post. Ever.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Avast me boy oh&#039;s... these pirate puns arrrrrghhh terrible! Although nowadays pirates you can still say that pirates work with bytes of eight!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Avast me boy oh&#8217;s&#8230; these pirate puns arrrrrghhh terrible! Although nowadays pirates you can still say that pirates work with bytes of eight!</p>
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		<title>By: Andy Lester</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andy Lester</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Laughter &amp; applause &amp; pasting of URL to friends.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Laughter &amp; applause &amp; pasting of URL to friends.</p>
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		<title>By: Will Kessel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Will Kessel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The New York Times just dropped their paywall -- finally -- because they realized exactly what you point out here.

The first thing I learned from NYT &quot;after the fall of the wall&quot;: pirates generally make lousy lawyers because they can&#039;t pass the barrrrrrrrrrrr...

;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The New York Times just dropped their paywall &#8212; finally &#8212; because they realized exactly what you point out here.</p>
<p>The first thing I learned from NYT &#8220;after the fall of the wall&#8221;: pirates generally make lousy lawyers because they can&#8217;t pass the barrrrrrrrrrrr&#8230;</p>
<p>;-)</p>
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		<title>By: Dustin Brewer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dustin Brewer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Harr.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Harr.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric TF Bat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric TF Bat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ha. Ha. Harrrrrrr.</description>
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I think it&#8217;s pretty much obvious to anyone with half a brain that information wants to be free&#8212;both free as in beer as well as free as in speech.  If it weren&#8217;t for huge soulless megacorporations imprisoning content behind unreasonably high paywalls and fascist licensing terms, we&#8217;d already be collectively a lot richer than we are today.  Anyway, it&#8217;s not like people would pay for most of their crap anyway, and since they never would have gotten that money, then it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;ve lost anything.  Hell, chances are that by being able to preview merchandise in full, sales are actually improved.
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