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It was a rare display of truly industrial strength chutzpah. Cheek of such force it’s breathtaking. A kind of work of art.<\/p>\n

I don’t often publish multiple projects within days of each other, but it just happened that the MEAP version of Manning’s “Learn AWS in a Month of Lunches<\/a>“, my “Using Docker on AWS<\/a>” course on Pluralsight, and Apress’s “Practical LPIC-1 Linux Certification Study Guide<\/a>” all appeared around the same time.<\/p>\n

When the LPIC-1 book appeared, I thought I’d see what I could learn about it from my smart friend, Google. Among the first page or so of search results were links to a few sites offering the book as a free download. Strange. I didn’t remember “free” as a standard Apress pricing model. But who am I to question the wisdom of the marketing gurus?<\/p>\n

Whoops! My mistake. It seems these had nothing to do with Apress marketing after all, but were links to downloads of pirated copies of the e-book version of my book. Well, we all have to make a living, I guess. Clicking on the link to the ebookee.pro site, however, I was surprised to be told that I wouldn’t be able to continue enjoying the page, because I was using an ad blocker.\u00a0ebookee.pro wants me to help them continue to “keep making this site awesome” by participating in their ad display campaign. How heartwarming.<\/p>\n

I am sympathetic to the problems facing the owners of many of the sites I often visit, and I will sometimes open up my ad blocker for them. After all, I enjoy reading the regularly-updated content that they work so hard to produce, why shouldn’t they get something back?<\/p>\n

But begging me to help support the wholesale theft of intellectual property…MY<\/strong> intellectual property?<\/p>\n

C’mon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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