The mind is in a spin reading the last few pages of this thread.
Thought that we agreed at least on 2 points:
- intellectual property is a good worth protecting
- the situation with ebooks (digital content) and all the restrictive laws, regulations, rules, terms is somewhat a mess as it is still easy to "steal intellectual property"/infringe on copyright given digital content
That a good number of us could be termed a "closet law breaker or copyright infringer (is that a word) or term violater" is tragic-comical - that's me saying "welcome in the club".
My hobbyhorse is the assumption that the only benefactor of the situation are the handful of big ebook vendors getting us in their walled gardens. But that's not the point of my post.
Please look at this:
WikiLeaks Release of Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Second Release
Intellectual Property Chapter for All 12 Nations with Negotiating Positions (May 16 2014 consolidated bracketed negotiating text)
https://www.wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/
May give you a taste of things to come.