On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:54:51AM -0500, Compton, John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > *Deep sigh* > One part of me says "So what? It's no skin off my nose that certain > publishers get to know which of their books I read" - and I could probably > agree to a certain amount of commercial sense in the idea, if I thought > about it for even a short while. > > The other side of me gets really upset at this kind of thing. How *DARE* > people like Adobe make this of information available to someone else without > telling me? The books I read are entirely my own choice and no business of > anyone else unless I make a positive effort to let the publisher know. > > It's exactly this kind of 'hidden loophole' stuff that makes the Web so > scary to the uninitiated. > > John
It's only a tiny step from this to a pdf document that will only let you read it once. Does everybody remember how Circuit City's fascination with a then-new but now completely dead technology called DIVX just about put them out of business? And rightfully so. /Leonard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
