[IP] The real meaning of the Act of 'Civil Disobedience'

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Mary Shaw [mary.shaw@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 7:42 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] Chron of Higher Ed: Founder of Textbook-Download Site Says Offering Free Copyrighted Textbooks Is Act of 'Civil Disobedience'

The undergraduate who is running this site clearly needs to study the basis for civil disobedience more carefully.  First, civil disobedience is not committed anonymously, but publicly and with full expectation of suffering the penalties.  Second, its purpose is to protest injustice, not prices.

Also, though there has been concentration in the textbook industry over the last decade or so, I don't think it is yet a monopoly.

Mary



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