[3541] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Security scheme for e-books
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Holovacs)
Mon Oct 26 09:36:04 1998
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:20:55 -0500
To: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.981023221108.8261E-100000@ivan.iecc.com>
At 10:19 PM 10/23/98 -0400, John R Levine wrote:
>
>. . . Now you have a thing that you can
>plug into your e-book, but more importantly resell, lend, or give away just
>like a real book.
>
Somehow I doubt publishers will be willing to provide this capability.
While we have long had this right with books, it has been strongly resented
by publishers, and now that they have the chance to create a new medium
without this functionality, they are unlikely to build it in. (Record
companies have been extremely hostile to stores which sell used CDs, to the
point of denying them new CD dealer status.)
Jay
