My computer was returned to me today. Fortunately, the Circuit City’s repair shop is much, much more competent than their telephone staff. My computer works properly now. Speedfan, the program I use to monitor the temperature of my computer’s innards, tells me that it runs below 70 degrees C at 100% CPU, whereas before it would go up to 100 degrees and shut down.
Yay! I can *do* stuff again!
Colleges’ e-reserves making big publishers worry: That was the first headline I saw in this morning’s paper. Here’s the deal:
Universities around the country have been setting up “e-reserves” at their libraries. Instead of having a number of books that the students have to go to the library and wait in line photocopy the section of whatever book they need (a practice that is clearly legal under the Fair Use clause), they just log into the university network, give a username and password, and read the section online.
Obviously, students love it. And just as obviously, publishing companies are against it:
And publishing companies are worried precisely because of that ease and convenience — it’s another way for publishers to lose sales.
The Association of American Publishers already has contacted one school, the University of California, San Diego, claiming “blatantly infringing use is being made of numerous books, journals and other copyrighted works.”
I’m really having trouble stirring up any sympathy for the publishing companies. Maybe if I wasn’t expected to pay upwards of $300 on textbooks every semester because of price gouging from the publishers, I’d be a little more sympathetic.
As it is, nein.
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