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James Michael DuPont <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can restrict the distribution of the files by usage of encryption,
> authentication. 
> 
> digital watermarking can be used to track escaped documents, automatic
> slight random changes in the grammar, spacing, punctuation and wording
> of each version distributed is one method. 

As another poster pointed out, this really doesn't work all that well.
In addition, the more complicated you make it to actually access the
content, the more trouble legitimate users will run into trying to get
to the content. It's an easily-observed fact that "security features"
for many software products can actually raise technical support costs as
the help desks have to constantly give assistance to legitimate
customers that the security is locking out.

"Les Bell" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Even authors, course developers, instructors and trainers have a right to
> eat. And that takes precedence over your *imagined* "right" to reuse and
> redistribute their work as you see fit.

As an author and course developer (you'll see my name on some of those
DigitalThink courses), it's nice to see someone keeping this in mind.
People really don't seem to understand how much work goes into courses,
computer books, and so on. [A syndrome represented by all of the
terrible manuals you see out there because no one wanted to pay someone
who specializes in technical/instructional writing.] 

I can't imagine doing all of that for free AND having to find another
way to pay my mortgage and eat. :P

-- 
Dee-Ann LeBlanc
Lots of things Linux
http://www.Dee-AnnLeBlanc.com/


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