Re: eBook security

>> (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 real problem with the real "pirates" is that it's hand in glove  
with organized crime. A zillion years ago, I remember reading about  
how the FBI usually found software piracy in the money laundering  
chain of drug running. The reason not to buy pirated software was  
then, "do you really want to be supporting the drug trade and  
organized crime?" Exactly.

But the casual infringement by users isn't the same thing and  
shouldn't BE the same thing. Back in the day, I knew the ins and outs  
of Napster. I tried a little music and went on to buy the CD's. I  
downloaded a lot of stuff that I owned on tape (and never could  
transfer to CD). But, when they closed down Napster and started sueing  
grandmothers, I went back to buying exactly as many CD's as I had  
bought before--about 4 per year... down from 10-15 per year because MY  
personal economy sucked and I was spending money on music lessons for  
my kids, not music for my car.

I've long fought the perm "piracy" and long disagreed with the RIAA's  
tactics and their assertions that if they stopped ALL casual  
infringement that they would make that much more dough. They wouldn't.  
Most people, I think are like me. They don't buy because they don't  
have the money to buy.

**shrug**

YMMV.

dej
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