Well, you know what they say, it's only crime if you get caught...and Gibson knows, there's enough open formats around. All someone would have to do is figure out how to get a proprietary hardware to read an open format, and then convert the closed format files to open.. or hell, straight-forward OCR and scan the actual print book... they haven't figured out how to build DMCA into dead-tree format, not yet anyway.
Lets face it, there's already a samizdat underground of bootleg e-books already... it's not much of step from that, that once the hardware gets cheap enough to become ubiquitous, that people will want open format books. And what people want, generally they figure out ways to get...publishers can either profit from it, or watch those potential sales go to someone else.
Google understands this...which is why their backing open formats too..and facebook looks like it might have some competition in diaspora.
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Lets face it, there's already a samizdat underground of bootleg e-books already... it's not much of step from that, that once the hardware gets cheap enough to become ubiquitous, that people will want open format books. And what people want, generally they figure out ways to get...publishers can either profit from it, or watch those potential sales go to someone else.
Google understands this...which is why their backing open formats too..and facebook looks like it might have some competition in diaspora.