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IP: Disappearing eBooks - but not inmates?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 14:20:39 -0400
And when I break their code that makes it disappear, Go to Jail?? djf
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:17:26 -0700 From: Seth David Schoen <schoen () loyalty org> To: dave () farber net - To: free-sklyarov () zork net From: Kurt Foss <kfoss () planetpdf com> Subject: [free-sklyarov] Disappearing eBooks - but not inmates? Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:10:56 -0500 In light of the press release item "RosettaBooks Launches First 'Timed' eBook" we just posted on our Planet eBook site, a possible punishment of five years in prison seems a bit harsh in light of the rapid changes in technologies these days. Someone like Sklyarov could be still idling away in the slammer while the copyright protection scheme he was able to outwit may have long since ceased to exist. Read about the tech demo that allows an eBook to be set to self-destruct after a specified period of time at: http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=201 rgds ~ Kurt ____________________ Kurt Foss - Editor _______________________ Planet PDF - A world of Acrobat/PDF news, tips, tools and forums mailto:kfoss () binarything com | mailto:kfoss () planetpdf com http://www.binarything.com/ | http://www.planetpdf.com/ BinaryThing.com - The ePublishing Network _______________________________________________ free-sklyarov mailing list free-sklyarov () zork net http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/free-sklyarov ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Seth David Schoen <schoen () loyalty org> | Lending, printing, copying, giving Temp. http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | and text-to-speech are permissions down: http://www.loyalty.org/ (CAF) | enabled by the publisher. -- Adobe I'm looking for work: http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/resume.html
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