Core favorite We Make Money Not Art pointed the way recently, via an interview with artist Paolo Cirio, to a new “crime” reaching epidemic proportions in the shops and newsstands of Japan: Digital Shoplifting....Nobody should be allowed to look at anything unless they've paid for it (except No Looking signs).
The Japanese Magazine Publishers Association is describing the common practice of shooting and sending snapshots of cute dress and hairstyle layouts in magazines as “information theft....”
Or maybe we should have some sort of eye tax.
Or better yet, maybe we ought to just go ahead and look at anything we damn well please. And listen, too.
Link: Digital Shoplifting: You knew it had to happen eventually
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