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Originally Posted by ardeegee
1.) Peer-to-peer systems like bittorrent are useful only for free, DRM free material-- you could not share files that had to be DRM-keyed to individuals since by definition files shared on a P2P network need to be bit-for-bit exactly the same. So that means all books would have to be given away for free-- where would the publisher benefit from that?
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Um. That's quite the assumption, and I can think of a dozen ways round that without trying too hard. Yes, some of them involve a custom client...but we're talking about book-length material, it's NOT a lot of data.