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by digi_owl 4128 days ago
I think many more were laughing back when it was originally published. Note that it dates back to 1997.
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Yes, but the cautionary tale is about content licencing and access control, and tangentially about copyright. It's a stretch to suggest it's a warning about the content of the article, which is about applying VAT differently to ebooks and physical books and nothing at all to do with access control. It's not even a warning about ebooks, which are implied but not mentioned in the cautionary tale.