Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it. - Cory Doctorow

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

The law didn’t care if you were actually doing anything bad; they were willing to put you under the microscope just for being statistically abnormal.

Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it’s impossible to win by doing nothing.