Comments on: Michael Moore and Rudy Giuliani: Two free e-books for political junkies—plus musings on Wowio and libraries http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/07/30/michael-moore-and-rudy-giuliani-two-free-and-timely-e-books-for-us-political-junkies-plus-some-musings-on-wowio-and-public-libraries/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brian Carnell http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/07/30/michael-moore-and-rudy-giuliani-two-free-and-timely-e-books-for-us-political-junkies-plus-some-musings-on-wowio-and-public-libraries/#comment-481371 Brian Carnell Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:10:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6892#comment-481371 The ban on travel to Cuba is a lot like DRM. People who really want to go to Cuba have any numbers of ways around the ban, so it ends up being selectively enforced and, in many cases, for political reasons. And, of course, it hasn't come close to accomplishing its goal of quickening the downfall of Castro's vile regime. Are we sure the RIAA didn't influence Kennedy to widen the Eisenhower arms embargo into a full-fledged embargo? Hmmm. The ban on travel to Cuba is a lot like DRM. People who really want to go to Cuba have any numbers of ways around the ban, so it ends up being selectively enforced and, in many cases, for political reasons. And, of course, it hasn’t come close to accomplishing its goal of quickening the downfall of Castro’s vile regime.

Are we sure the RIAA didn’t influence Kennedy to widen the Eisenhower arms embargo into a full-fledged embargo? Hmmm.

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