I'm just wondering where they found 4 people to pay $2500 each, and another 8 people to pay $1000 each...
Without those, the math would be: $34527/282 = 122.44 average contribution, not nearly enough for a successful funding...
Wouldn't really surprise me if some of those 12 were a sponsor nudging this cheap marketing campaign to success,
they barely made it to the goal as it is. :/
As someone obviously didn't like him:
If he actually had robbed a bank or done any of the other things in the list, you could almost be certain that they would add a whole bunch of bogus charges against him to make sure he would get potentially locked up for life anyway...
US "justice" is scary, and I don't think I'll ever dare set my foot on US soil now. It seems more like a legal minefield from here.
Of course our children should play a license fee for infringing on our genes! Stealing is wrong, whether it's a DVD at the store or your parent's genes.
Parents need an incentive to procreate, and that incentive is the gene patents! You can hardly expect them to procreate for free? There wouldn't be any children without gene patents!
With the first two books already in the public domain, you can't help but think "this is going to happen anyway".
It certainly doesn't help that the entire digital trilogy is a 20$ pledge, while you can buy the first two books on their website for 3$ & 5$, and pledge for the third book for another 5$ (combined 13$).
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The Piracy activity of Atlanta is over 9000! :p
Hmm
Maybe they did learn their lesson, and was aiming for the 15 min of Internet fame through the Streisand effect to begin with?
Court Fanfics
You know court cases are starting to be ridiculous when they spawn their own mini-fanfics...
Re: The real story: $34527/282 = 122.44 average contribution?
I'm just wondering where they found 4 people to pay $2500 each, and another 8 people to pay $1000 each...
Without those, the math would be: $34527/282 = 122.44 average contribution, not nearly enough for a successful funding...
Wouldn't really surprise me if some of those 12 were a sponsor nudging this cheap marketing campaign to success,
they barely made it to the goal as it is. :/
Yikes!
As a Norwegian, why am I learning about this for the first time on techdirt now!? :s
*panic mode on*
This is Aaron Swartz we're talking about...
As someone obviously didn't like him:
If he actually had robbed a bank or done any of the other things in the list, you could almost be certain that they would add a whole bunch of bogus charges against him to make sure he would get potentially locked up for life anyway...
US "justice" is scary, and I don't think I'll ever dare set my foot on US soil now. It seems more like a legal minefield from here.
So uhh...
What would they do if some crazy maniac actually decided to give them $325M?
I assume they haven't actually planned for that...
Huh?
Wait... so it wasn't blocked because of its rounded corners?
Of course our children should play a license fee for infringing on our genes! Stealing is wrong, whether it's a DVD at the store or your parent's genes.
Parents need an incentive to procreate, and that incentive is the gene patents! You can hardly expect them to procreate for free? There wouldn't be any children without gene patents!
Oh wow...
I did not expect this to ever happen anywhere, let alone in my country.
Now I'm almost gonna have to subscribe on principle just to show them that they're doing something right for once.
Re: No login required
That was done by the google translation.
A more manual translation would be closer to "by them searching and logging into the blog"
- A Norwegian who's probably not really good at translating either.
I guess they could use a 'Stay Smart Offline' program as well...
It's a nice cause but...
With the first two books already in the public domain, you can't help but think "this is going to happen anyway".
It certainly doesn't help that the entire digital trilogy is a 20$ pledge, while you can buy the first two books on their website for 3$ & 5$, and pledge for the third book for another 5$ (combined 13$).