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Finding copyrighted texts should be laughably easy compared to child pornography (and you are obviously making a really transparent and unfair association between possessing CP and e-book piracy, by the way), and I'm actually in favor of implementing as much security into the processing of internet traffic as possible as long as it doesn't infringe on an individual's rights.
On the other hand, man, Steve...this doesn't address the underlying dynamics of why piracy exists, and how pirates exist as part of the business model. Not to draw on weighted analogies after criticizing you for doing so, but this reflects a War-on-Drugs-type mentality when it comes to dealing with piracy. This should be a very important comparison for you: no matter how much you are able to control the flow of illicit drugs, people will still want to get high, and the motivation for people to want to get something for free is pretty much as natural as wanting to get high. We've established important societal mechanisms both for discouraging drug use and for stealing, but people will always find ways to do both (maybe in relation to each other!). Total accountability is one solution for preventing drug use or piracy, but the implementation of a system to create that is going to be inherently overbearing, unconstitutional (in the universal civil liberties sense), and generally wack.
There's a median between an anarchistic free-for-all and big-Dr.-Dre-I'm-your-boss. I really don't want to sound like a big jerk here, but some amount of piracy is almost necessary as part of a copyright system because it provides a balance between total control of content and total lack of control. I know that does come off as a justification for piracy, but I'm really arguing that anticipating and accepting the *existence* (not fairness/morality) of piracy is a lot more natural (a loaded word in and of itself) than trying to find ways to eliminate all copywritic wrongdoing in the digital realm through policing of internet data.
Edit: this is just a straight response to your first post, and I see that these points have already been made in one form or another. You don't need to respond to anything I said that you feel you've already addressed.
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