Set phasers to takedown.....

Seen on Ars Technica

....a few weeks back the SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) contacted Scribd, a site that allows users to post documents in the same way that YouTube allows people to post videos. SFWA alleged that numerous works on Scribd violated copyrights of SFWA members and requested that these works be taken down. They were. But it quickly became apparent that the USS 1701-SFWA had a crack in its dilithium crystals.

Stories began to emerge from the blogosphere, and not the sort of Stranger in a Strange Land stuff that the SFWA exists to promote. Nick Senger, an eighth-grade teacher and promoter of teen literacy, found his sci-fi bibliography targeted in the crackdown. "I'm not sure what the SFWA has to gain by requesting that the list be removed," he notes. "That list does nothing but encourage people to buy their books."

Of all the people you would have thought would grok this new media, new world stuff, Sci Fi writers would stand out. Can't wait for the list to be resurrected...a 300+ list of Sci Fi books to read is a global treasure.

This is certainly not the answer to all things......another swallow in the great summer of discontent with IP/DRM content.