Slightly off topic - Ebooks

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> The music industry will never release electronic format
> materials without enforceable piracy prevention.

Publishing industry is taking the music industry as what not to do.


> Also, you should know by now that there is no such thing as
> enforceable piracy prevention.
> 
> The Amazon encryption, for example, can be bypassed by the
> original purchaser with a fairly short Python script.

Agreed, nothing in the world is or ever will be uncrackable.  But it's
enough to keep out most trouble, and make a big enough difference that the
publishers care about the result.