Digital Barbarism, Mark Helprin
Digital Barbarism, Mark Helprin
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Digital Barbarism

Author: Mark Helprin

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 8 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/28/2009


Synopsis

“A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”—National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism provides rational, witty, and supremely wise support for the individual voice and its hard-won legal protections.

About Mark Helprin

Mark Helprin was educated at Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford and served in the Israeli Army, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the author of, among other titles, A Dove of the East and Other Stories, Refiner’s Fire, Winter’s Tale, and A Soldier of the Great War. He lives in Virginia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on October 15, 2009

This is that book that you love to hate! Mark Helprin is such a nasty, mean windbag in his book Digital Barbarism. As a tattooed woman (2 strikes against me), I'm apparently just one of the millions of riffraff he loathes! However, although it KILLS me to admit it, he does raise a couple of interest......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on June 03, 2009

Sarcastic book, fun to read. Unfortunately, his arguments are weak and he doesn't address many of the opposing argument's points. There is more to copyright debate than Mark Helprin speaks about and he addresses only what I consider to be "common sense" when it comes to copyright. The book is more o......more

Goodreads review by Fred on February 22, 2014

Excellent argument in favor of copyright; even for extending copyright into perpetuity of descendants. I believe if you own a house you should be able to pass it to your kids without burdening them with the taxes; perhaps a tax scale that takes into account the income of the recipient as well as the......more

Goodreads review by Varina on October 23, 2010

This book is poorly argued. It displays a complete lack of understanding of the movement it claims to describe and oppose, not to mention Internet culture. In fact the whole argument is based on the largest straw man this side of the Burning Man festival. I want desperately to hate it, but the prose......more

Goodreads review by Todd on January 29, 2020

The semiconscious hordes will quickly devour anything that doesn’t fit their mold, and denounce, in unison, anything that flashes past their collective eye, only to quickly move on to the next kill, or the next fad, never daring to seek their own original thought, or heaven forbid, put actual work i......more