/foilhat/

>>6066

Fuck you, you can't spell "tongue"!

>>6068

(anyway, it's a matter of official record. We really were nuked because of copyright shit - in /lit/ and in /co/, of all places).

Nominating Douglas Coupland's J-Pod

>>6074

I liked that book. I liked a couple of others by the same dude, but just couldn't get into Microserfs at all.

we should have 2 or 3 books of the month.

ya kno

If On A Winters Night A Traveler. I've been looking for an excuse to re-read that.

Actual... it's legal precedent that bulletin/chan sites can't be prosecuted for the posts of individual users...
Would it be possible to have a non-mod do a BotM and for 99 to 'lose' IP data?

Prosecution isn't the problem, it's the DMCA takedown notices served against the hosting provider, which oblige them to suspend the site (and they can be prosecuted in some cases - but more germaine is the fact that disputing these notices costs money in the form of legal bills, and they are not going to spend money on our behalf, no way).

It's a strange kind of attention we've received - it seems only the actual BOTMs have come under scrutiny, and maybe three books from the library. I get the impression it's just a firm representing one tiny publisher, but that's speculation.

If we 'lost' IPs then we couldn't ban, and we'd be inviting banworthy traffic. So, not really :/

That said, of course anyone can post what they like, it's just that I don't want to have an actual book in the BOTM posts because that's where our enemies have been specifically looking for copyright breaches to target.

anonib is for books.

How about The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters, by Nick Smith?

We need to have some of those internet classics as botm. Like hitchhikers guide.

Five weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

The Communist Manifesto.

Just limit the BOTM to ones with expired copyright. Problem solved.

JDatE, definitely.

>>6418

This and just roll a fucking dice or something. Fucking alarms.

>>6598
>>roll a fucking dice

Roll a die, Soumy. Dice = plural.

>>6610

I'd normally agree but that would not be very sporting. Oxford says "historically, dice is the plural of die, but in modern standard English dice is used as both the singular and the plural."

So, 'ave it, me mucker.

Oh fuck me, I raged. I say we spite them and post books in rapidshare/megaupload links, with unusual filenames that has nothing to do with the book's titles. Fucking DMCA.

If there is not a nice long book of the month I will have to get a bloody job or something to keep me occupied. Hop to.

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

>>6074
I liked this book too. I haven't read a Coupland novel I didn't like, but you have to be in the right sort of mood to read them.

can we start doing this again? like designate a book and have all the participants be on their own to get it. it's not like it's hard to find books on the internet.

Yeah, please bring this back. I want to talk about books dammit.

Sorry. I will deliver. In the meantime, lookit the nice cat. It's a big picture. See how noble and sturdy? Also tufted. Think of it as visual hold music, only nice.