[p2p-research] lightfoot book sharing ?

[Kevin Carson]

On 1/15/10, Andy Robinson <ldxar1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm assuming everyone has heard of this?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
>
> If not... quite an interesting parallel.
>
> The best-known variant is for the duplication of banned political works, but
> I understand it was also used to distribute works which weren't exactly
> banned but were not licensed for distribution and not made available.  For
> instance, the early Star Wars novels made it into Poland in this form.

IIRC, "samizdat pirate" was a term used in the USSR, illustrating the
parallel between the respective forms of information lockdown the
Soviet oligarchy and American corporate power depended on.

Even with a highly authoritarian Internet surveillance regime, BTW,
burning CDs or making floppy disk copies of stuff from hard drive and
distributing it by sneakernet would be a massive improvement over the
means available to the Soviet samizdat movement.

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