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E-books are the luckiest of I.P. products. They are the hardest to convert to digital, requiring huge amounts of human labor to do well. So writers have the most "natural" protection against infringement. Which helps them a little, not much.
The underlying problem is how do you stop unlawful infringing. The blunt (and depressing) fact is basically nothing can be done. The most aggresive defender of his own copyrights nearly went broke doing it, and 1. had to waive the tin cup to reach trail completion and 2. Had to sue the hosting company because the actual infringer didn't have enough assets to pay for the suit. What to do you do when thing get passed around hand-to-hand instead of via the internet? Won't happen? It used to happen all the time 50 years ago in the analog world. Pass the record back and forth, recording along the way. Today, you might swap SD chips via e-mail requests. Unless you abolish digital technology, you will never be able to stop I.P. infringment.
This is the dragon. it isn't going away. - RSE
Last edited by Greg Anos; 03-31-2009 at 09:10 PM.
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