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Well I just read this thread through from front to back.
The clearest point made in the whole tangled mess, in my opinion. Moejoe's post about the avatar picture. That to me sums up the whole ebook thing in a nutshell.
Well said Moejoe!
If I have a "camera" that can take a "picture" of a car, and go home and reproduce it, right down to the oil in the engine, and the gas in the tank. Is my taking a picture of your car hurting you? Mind you I said hurting YOU, not the car company's.
The car company would in that analogy be doomed no matter what.
A digital copy is just that, a copy. As valueless as an avatar, (you know anyone paying for avatars?) Yet with incredible potential power. Hence all the fuss.
Traditional morality, and business methods will not work in dealing with it.
The concepts just don't carry over, they are flawed.
You will have to think outside of the box. Redefine how it works, and how it should work.
To me that includes redefining copy-write law and intellectual property.
I suspect it is going to be a long, bloody, and painful process for some.
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