Digital is Evil.
Look:
- Mr. A buys a book, read it once, and, knowing that he won't ever re-read it, he sells it on ebay.
-> Good.
- Mr. B buys a DRM free e-book, read it once, and, knowing that he won't ever re-read it, he sells it on ebay.
-> Evil.
- Mr. A borrows a book from his friend. And since nor he, nor his friend won't ever re-read it, he gives it to another friend.
-> Good.
- Mr. B borrows a DRM free e-book from his friend. And since nor he, nor his friend won't ever re-read it, he gives it to another friend through the Net.
-> Evil.
- Mr. A buys a book, strips the cover, makes xerox enlargements, throws the originals away, reads the copies and stores them.
-> Good.
- Mr. B buys an e-book, strips the DRM, makes a PDF with a large font, deletes the original, reads the copy on his Kindle DX and stores it.
-> Evil.
- Mr. A buys a book and reads it aloud for his wife.
-> Good.
- Mr. B buys an e-book, strips DRM and circumvent protections to make his Kindle read it aloud for his wife.
-> Evil.
- Mr. A buys a book, reads it and then liberate it leaving it on a bench for whoever will take it.
-> Good.
- Mr. B buys an ebook, reads it and then liberate it leaving it on a web page with a "download once and delete from server" constraint for whoever will take it.
-> Evil.
There is only on explanation: the evil is in the digital format itself, not in the behaviour of the user.
