Is There Traditional Property in the Digital Sphere?

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Replying to advice from Cameron Riecker · Mentor / Mentoree Dynamics Changing with Age Pyramid · New blog on the kid: Is There Traditional Property in the Digital Sphere? · To Whoever Tries to Tell Me I Write "Wrong" (Not Meaning I Am Wrong About a Subject, Which Would be a Matter for a Debate)

This video features products turning into rental services, and Nicole discusses pros and cons:

Everything Changes
According to Nicole | 11 May 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdjKAf6nc4

My blogs are not this.

I own the texts.

Blogger owns my possibility of keeping them here. But not the texts themselves.

I have licenced them* for anyone who wants to print into material books, individual supports, which by definition you can keep and do what you will with once you acquire them by production, gift, purchase.

That's one reason why I do not try to publish my works as e-books, which, if on kindle, as Nicole said, Amazon could just withdraw, selectively from some or wholesale for all.

If I get 100 books into print of some collection**, and a Fahrenheit 451 scenario occurs, I'd like for it to be a chance that some random copy survived on a plane journey across an Ocean, or across a frontier (not sure whether the book refugee would go North or South across the Rio Grande or Tijuana) or whatever.

Yes, the version I am creating right now is digital. I have traditional property over it, referred to as copyright, and it can be translated to traditional property in the low-tech physical support sphere (if you call printing and binding a book low-tech, it's at least low-tech to keep it in your possession and access it***.)

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Sts Abdon and Sennen
30.VII.2025

Romae sanctorum Martyrum Abdon et Sennen Persarum, qui, sub Decio, catenis alligati et Romam adducti, pro Christi fide prius plumbatis caesi sunt, deinde gladio interfecti.

* The blogposts. For those with someone else's copyright relevant, like my dialogues with someone else, see: Copyright issues on blogposts with shared copyright which also links to my basic conditions: A little note on further use conditions
** Collection of my essays.
*** If kept in some bags of some homeless, it may also include an element of luck. Last week, someone gave me a tomato. I didn't want it immediately, put it in a bag, where as it happens there were books. When I decided to look after the tomato, it had gone moldy and ruined one or two books or so ...)