Is it “All Hail Dischorida?” or only “Some Hail Dischordia?”

Or are you simply playing along.

I’m just sad they didn’t include a section on Paris Hilton…

Feel free and quote from Steve Jackson (who is *not* the Author of the Principia Discordia).

Here’s a quote from Greg Hill (who *is* the Author): “it was published with a broken copyright–Reprint What You Like”. Elsewhere in the Principia, in many places, instead of being called “Copyright”, and instead of being called “Public Domain”, the associated copying rights of the book are referred to as “Kopyleft”.

This is prolly the answer to your rhetorical “I’m not sure why people think this is not the case”: because it’s not the case. Steve was wrong.

Hope this helps.

“All the new stuff, like the original Principia, is public domain.”

I’m not sure why people think this is not the case.

As to this current edition: perfectly legal, stupidly lame. And I don’t see the point; who in their right mind thinks doing it this way will make them a dime more money compared to leaving the original text intact and open? Seems obvious it will only lose them sales to do it this way.

Cheers!

The entire text of their book is copyrighted, not just the layout. They call the Principia their “source material” but as critics have pointed out they change small things in the text to justify the copyright.

“Why is it a Bad Thing that somebody publishes their own version of the Principia?”

I’m all for everyone publishing their own Principia, but I’m also suspicious of the methods used here. I don’t recall making a personal judgment call, I’m just reporting what has happened.