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Re: Security scheme for e-books

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon Oct 26 14:34:56 1998

From: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>
To: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
Cc: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, cryptography@c2.net
Date: 26 Oct 1998 12:56:21 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jay Holovacs's message of Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:20:55 -0500

Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net> writes:

>> 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.

So, how are libraries going to work in this brave new world? 

		Marc

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