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Originally Posted by shalym
Huh?? I'm confused. Are you saying that people who disagree with you about this are at right angles to you? Or are they statistically independent from you? Or maybe at right angles to the world, or maybe statistically independent from the world?
Maybe you're using a different definition than I am?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthogonal
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Nope, just the people who are trying to bring comparisons that are at right angles to the case.
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Originally Posted by murg
Clearly, you haven't seen any episodes of CSI Cyber.
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I am more than happy to confess to that failure.
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Originally Posted by jbjb
Firstly, it doesn't take much in the way of expertise to remotely access the files of most consumers - there are easily downloadable kits that the relatively unskilled can use to do just that.
Secondly, even if copying your ebook library may not be such an intruder's *primary* concern, that doesn't mean they won't do it anyway while they've got access to your files.
As I asked before - do you really think that criminal negligence and deliberate action are the only two possibilities for someone's ebooks "getting out there"?
/JB
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You have still not convinced me of a viable alternative -- what-ifs don't count.
Anyone who gets access to your computer can find far more interesting things to be concerned about, and I really am convinced that deliberate action will be almost always the reason. Criminal negligence for the South Africans among us, as an also-noticeable factor.
Peoples' identities are stolen and used to commit crimes, on occasion. The victims are investigated to the full extent of whatever-the-crime-is-worth, regardless of the what-if potential that turns out to be that particular case.
Same here -- if your ebooks against all the odds end up stolen and uploaded to the darknet, I expect, nay, demand, that the individual in question be treated the same as any
actual uploader of pirated ebooks. Being suspected of a crime does happen to innocent people all the time, and for this reason, a curious institution has arisen whereby we
investigate and bring to trial. IOW, there are
methods to deal with the possibility that our initial suspicions are wrong.
Your what-if is not sufficient to enable a suspect in a crime to get off scot-free with zero scrutiny.
I am NOT suggesting we automatically send a person to jail without a trial if their ebooks end up on the darknet.
I am suggesting that
due process of the law applies.