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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Thanks for sharing. How 'bout some detail?
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Steve might have a point. If an ebook contains the unstrippably embedded message "John Smith from Minnesota is a dirty pirate and has disseminated illegal copies of this book, phone him at 123-5678 and tell him he's a dick." I would think twice about disseminating it.
On the other hand, I would never, ever buy a book that could implicitly sully my real-life reputation if I happen to accidentally lose it; so, again, there's a problem of relevance.
The thing about accountability is that it's basically a loaded gun. Sometimes it's good to have a loaded gun pointed at you: "I'll sell you this product, you have satisfaction guaranteed or I'll let you pull the trigger" but in the vast majority of cases there's no need for a nationwide system of loaded guns pointed at everyone's heads.