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Originally Posted by Mange
Bill, what you say is true, but I for one find it farfetched. If I'd be that paranoid I could always go to lengths to make my laptop unusable should it get stolen.
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What about your ebook reader? It might not allow you to make the books unavailable to others.
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A representative of the German ebook market stated that since they started with watermarking and removing the DRM, they haven't had one case of piracy.
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At least not that they have identified. I suspect the pirates might be uploading the books from other sources... or removing the watermarks from books they might have purchased.
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But thoughts arise about the whole idea of stealing. And stealing digital and copyrighted material.
As you say, the person stealing the laptop probably hasn't an incentive to remove the watermark, but the theft and the uploading is a different matter. There obviously is some kind of incentive to do that. But what?
What makes a person do things like these? I've always wondered why someone would buy(!) a picture, movie, song, album and now ebook and then copy it and upload it to strangers
Or scan a paperbook (imagine the work behind such an act) and then upload the digital version of it.
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In some cases, they do it because they feel like they are
liberating the information. In others though, they may have found a way to profit from the piracy.
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I guess people like this leads such poor social lives and by doing this they hope to get some kind of recognition.
"Hey, look at me - I'm a loser - but if a go to a lot of trouble and give you, bribe you, with these digital baubles - will you accept me or even like me?"
When thieves get their hands on physical goods, money, jewelry and such, they usually don't give that away. Or do they? Maybe all thieves are like that - looking for acceptance by bribing.
Just some thoughts about stealing.
Take care,
Mange
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They are looking for something.. usually profits, but sometimes they have a social or political agenda they are trying to forward. Sometimes they might do it to justify the books they download from others.
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Bill