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Originally Posted by NatCh
Copy the file? Go ahead but it won't open anywhere but on that SD card. I still think this could work.  |
You're probably right. But I don't see this as much of an advantage over restricting use to a specific machine (desktop or reader), which I think is absurd. Using some kind of account number (bank/credit card or purchasing account for an online eBook store) is acceptable, even if it does assume that I'm a thief when I'm not. I won't be wanting to give my CC number or store account number out and have other people running up a bill in my name. But any system which restricts my use to only one piece of hardware of any type is evil. There will come a time when CF cards won't be readable any more, because the industry will have moved on to some new format. Paper has a track record of hundreds or thousands of years of "backward compatability." Why should I give that up to have my books locked into a temporary format?
The only exception to this problem that I can readily think of is newspapers. That's pretty ephemeral stuff, and I could accept only being able to download it to a preregistered CF card or similar. You should still be able to copy a couple of articles out of the whole paper into some other storage format, though.