Re: eBook security

China is a little more busy than that.  Their street vendors fit the 
for-profit requirement for the term pirate I mentioned earlier.  So do 
the ones that send cheap knock-off bootlegs into the States.  Three 
sources I'll cite here, although this issue has been noted in many 
magazines and BLOGs over the past 5 years:

http://www.nlpc.org/view.asp?action=viewArticle&aid=2017

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070724-chinese-pirates-busted-with-500-million-of-software.html

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=606302

This was a problem well before RIAA was busy suing that old man and his 
12-year old grand daughter.  If the DMCA meant anything in China, and 
the copyright law were absolutely enforced, none of this would be 
happening.  Of course, China doesn't care about laws created by our 
Congress....

As I've said repeatedly, all a lock does is keep the honest crooks out.  
My dad taught me this.  He learned it the hard way.  In his younger days 
(1950s), he locked his car regularly.  He quit doing that altogether 
after finding his window smashed, and his radio gone.  The radio cost 
him $12 to replace.  The window was $50.  He never locked any car he 
owned again.  "Pearls before swine" is a great idea, but locked-up 
pearls against crooks with lock-picks is a waste of time.

Danny Stone


Marion Gropen wrote:
>
>
> Danny Stone:
>
> > I'd like to shoot whoever decided that a copyright infringer should
> > be called a pirate. By old-school definitions, a pirate was
> > someone who stole other peoples' stuff and made money with it. You
> > know, like China does with our software, music, and movies by
> > spades of factors higher than all the US-based P2P downloaders
> > combined.
> >
> > Infringer: Thief? Yes. Pirate? No. (Okay, climbing off soap-
> > box....)
>
> The term is a straight lift from the time when infringers were (and
> many still are) reprinting your editions and selling them. Some
> infringers now copy ebooks and sell them. (I would be dubious that
> Chinese for-profit infringers outsell the P2P networks as a whole,
> though, especially in music. Do you have a source for this?)
>
> The worst of the infringers move a LOT of copies, and whether they do
> so for money (ad revenue is definitely an issue) or for kudos, they
> do profit.
>
> But, in the end, I agree with you: thief works better.
> >
>
> Marion Gropen
>


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