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Originally Posted by tompe
Or an organisation to take on the criminals that sells the Cybook and therefore selling copyrighted material without permission.
Your inconsistency in what you admire is rather disturbing.
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Seriously though, there is not a single thing admirable about the way the RIAA operates. Authors would get EVEN LESS money than they already do.
Associations like that are archaic and hurtful to the entire media industry.
If you sit quietly for a moment you can hear their death knell swelling and carrying with the wind.
Even if a literary equivalent emerged it would only harm end users who got caught dipping their toe into the oceanic-sized "darknet." I don't know anyone with a serious pirating habit that has been threatened or "caught" in any way by the RIAA or the MPAA. All of these poorly thought out schemes to keep their material from being copied only end up hampering and irritating their own customer base. The real criminals they want so badly to thwart are always a step ahead.