On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:00:41 GMT, "Dee D. Flint" wrote:
"Nocturnal1" wrote in message
...
If I had my druthers,
there would be no copyright law and everything would be freely available for
downloading...

Nobody would write any new material in that case. It wouldn't be worth
their time and effort.

Not necessarily. The books in the Baen Free Library (freely downloadable,
no copy protection mechanisms whatsoever) tend to outsell both their own
previous sales and those of books of similar age and similar previous
sales by a factor of 4.

Jasper