a:59:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7531";s:14:"comment_author";s:6:"Curtis";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:23:"curtis@reddirtworld.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:0:"";s:15:"comment_content";s:1375:"And last, but not least, my wife publishes poetry.  Some of her poetry is of a patriotic variety.  We drop by her Mom's, open the newspaper and see her poem turned into a major holiday advertisement for a Ford dealership. We later learn that two more newpapers carried the advertisement.  It was simple. Cut and paste. Delete her name and copyright. Job completed. Newpaper collects fees. Author collects zip. 

Not so fast. The author and her husband are brassy people. With newspaper in hand, we proceed to the office of the local publisher. We gain an audience with said publisher.

I, in a meandering sort of way, discuss the possiblity of writing for his newspaper. During the course of the discussion, I share with the publisher that my wife now seated to his right had already written for his paper.

His blank look was a wonder to behold.  I hand him a copy of his newspaper folded to the advertisement. Then, I point out the material sans the author and copyright. "Sir, I thought you might like to meet the author of the poem."  

His were the fixed eyes of a mouse pinned to the bottom of the trap. His white-knuckle grip indicated the possibility of impending danger. 

It was fun. 

Someone please let Jeremy know that if he has many friends with his philosophy, it's best they not do business with each other. I hear there is no honor among thieves.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:12:"75.91.66.187";s:10:"user_agent";s:123:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1.3 Safari/533.19.4";s:8:"referrer";s:69:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/a-few-great-book-theft-myths-debunked/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:69:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/a-few-great-book-theft-myths-debunked/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:6:"Curtis";s:10:"POST_email";s:23:"curtis@reddirtworld.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:0:"";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1376:"And last, but not least, my wife publishes poetry.  Some of her poetry is of a patriotic variety.  We drop by her Mom's, open the newspaper and see her poem turned into a major holiday advertisement for a Ford dealership. We later learn that two more newpapers carried the advertisement.  It was simple. Cut and paste. Delete her name and copyright. Job completed. Newpaper collects fees. Author collects zip. 

Not so fast. The author and her husband are brassy people. With newspaper in hand, we proceed to the office of the local publisher. We gain an audience with said publisher.

I, in a meandering sort of way, discuss the possiblity of writing for his newspaper. During the course of the discussion, I share with the publisher that my wife now seated to his right had already written for his paper.

His blank look was a wonder to behold.  I hand him a copy of his newspaper folded to the advertisement. Then, I point out the material sans the author and copyright. "Sir, I thought you might like to meet the author of the poem."  

His were the fixed eyes of a mouse pinned to the bottom of the trap. His white-knuckle grip indicated the possibility of impending danger. 

It was fun. 

Someone please let Jeremy know that if he has many friends with his philosophy, it's best they not do business with each other. I hear there is no honor among thieves. ";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7531";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"13da7da311";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1602";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:90:"application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:13:"gzip, deflate";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:2:"en";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"HTTP_ORIGIN";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:69:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/a-few-great-book-theft-myths-debunked/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:123:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1.3 Safari/533.19.4";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:12:"75.91.66.187";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"61796";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.1";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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