Comments on: Rowling’s fear of piracy, spawns illegal Potter e-bboks. http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2005/07/20/rowlings-fear-of-piracy-spawns-illegal-potter-e-bboks/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:12:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2005/07/20/rowlings-fear-of-piracy-spawns-illegal-potter-e-bboks/#comment-23 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:58:00 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2005/07/20/rowlings-fear-of-piracy-spawns-illegal-potter-e-bboks/#comment-23 Yeah... But I find it ironic, that she wanted to avoid e-book format to prevent "piracy", but the book started circulating in the p2p withing 24h anyway. There is no way to DRM a paper based book. So unless you ban scanners, and OCR software this thing is bound to happen. Yeah… But I find it ironic, that she wanted to avoid e-book format to prevent “piracy”, but the book started circulating in the p2p withing 24h anyway.

There is no way to DRM a paper based book. So unless you ban scanners, and OCR software this thing is bound to happen.

]]> by: Dan Copulsky http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2005/07/20/rowlings-fear-of-piracy-spawns-illegal-potter-e-bboks/#comment-22 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:35:00 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2005/07/20/rowlings-fear-of-piracy-spawns-illegal-potter-e-bboks/#comment-22 It does show she made the wrong choice, but it also shows she was right to worry about piracy. It does show she made the wrong choice, but it also shows she was right to worry about piracy.

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