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Originally Posted by giddion
But if the IC is in a single use or disposable type ebook/ereader then copying would involve opening the unit and soldering some sort of cable or something to the chip. While this doesn't technically qualify as 'uncopyable' it does put the copying outside the capabilities of the average user.
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Limited use sales have been tried over and over in the market place - and generally failed
unless they are so cheap as to be of negligible cost.
It would be a good reminder to look at Hollywood's attempt to sell the original DiVX discs in the late 1990s. That went over like the lead balloon that the concept was and is.