"Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown" - читать интересную книгу автора (Sterling Bruce)

sell the book, they are not going to bother you for what you do with the
electronic copy of this book. If you want to check this out personally,
you can ask them; they're at 1540 Broadway NY NY 10036. However,
if you were so foolish as to print this book and start retailing it for
money in violation of my copyright and the commercial interests of
Bantam Books, then Bantam, a part of the gigantic Bertelsmann multi-
national publishing combine, would roust some of their heavy-duty
attorneys out of hibernation and crush you like a bug. This is only to be
expected. I didn't write this book so that you could make money out of it.
If anybody is gonna make money out of this book, it's gonna be me and my
publisher.


My publisher deserves to make money out of this book. Not only did the
folks at Bantam Books commission me to write the book, and pay me a
hefty sum to do so, but they bravely printed, in text, an electronic doc-
ument the reproduction of which was once alleged to be a federal felony.
Bantam Books and their numerous attorneys were very brave and forth-
right about this book. Furthermore, my former editor at Bantam Books,
Betsy Mitchell, genuinely cared about this project, and worked hard on
it, and had a lot of wise things to say about the manuscript. Betsy
deserves genuine credit for this book, credit that editors too rarely get.

The critics were very kind to *The Hacker Crackdown,* and commer-
cially the book has done well. On the other hand, I didn't write this book
in order to squeeze every last nickel and dime out of the mitts of impov-
erished sixteen-year-old cyberpunk high-school-students. Teenagers
don't have any money — (no, not even enough for the six- dollar
*Hacker Crackdown* paperback, with its attractive bright-red cover
and useful index). That's a major reason why teenagers sometimes
succumb to the temptation to do things they shouldn't, such as swiping
my books out of libraries. Kids: this one is all yours, all right? Go
give the print version back. *8-)


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B R U CE S TE R L IN G — T H E HAC KER CR A C KD OW N NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE
 Well-meaning, public-spirited civil libertarians don't have much
money, either. And it seems almost criminal to snatch cash out of the
hands of America's direly underpaid electronic law enforcement com-
munity.

If you're a computer cop, a hacker, or an electronic civil liberties
activist, you are the target audience for this book. I wrote this book
because I wanted to help you, and help other people understand you and
your unique, uhm, problems. I wrote this book to aid your activities,
and to contribute to the public discussion of important political issues.
In giving the text away in this fashion, I am directly contributing to the
book's ultimate aim: to help civilize cyberspace.