A History Lesson for the Freetards

A few days ago my esteemed com­rade John Welch wrote up a very insight­ful post about the issues sur­round­ing the Amazon Kindle’s text to speech fea­tures and Author’s Guild response. I’m not going to revisit the specifics of the sit­u­a­tion. If you’re unaware of them go and read John’s post, but I did want to add some of my thoughts in the form of a his­tor­i­cal par­al­lel that seems to be get­ting missed in the dis­cus­sion so far.


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