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Taylor, DRM is a stillborn notion. However, the worrying thing is that, given the propensity for governments as lawmakers to represent mamon rather than the citizen, it will only be a matter of time before ebook readers become an addition to their panoply of control and surveillance networks. Ebook hardware with biometrics and embedded GPS systems may sound fanciful, but I'm sure interested parties would love to know who, as well as when and where, was reading the latest best seller.
I really don't understand why people can't see that the new electronic age, with it's potential for the almost immediate transfer of knowledge, is paradoxically the most dangerous age we have faced in terms of the control of knowledge and the control of people receiving that knowledge. If that sounds paranoid, I wonder what it would be like to live in a country which has literally millions of surveillance cameras which watch your every movement day and night - oh dear I forgot, I do, and it's called the UK.
Tommy
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