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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Help for paper about LaTeX/LyX and the meaning of life
From:       Steve Litt <slitt () troubleshooters ! com>
Date:       2009-03-24 18:13:41
Message-ID: 200903241413.41736.slitt () troubleshooters ! com
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On Tuesday 24 March 2009 01:44:26 pm Piero Faustini wrote:
> Steve Litt <slitt@...> writes:
> > With the advent of the eBook, it doesn't have to be that way. "Printing"
> > an eBook, complete with personalization at the bottom of every page so
> > the reader thinks twice about posting his copy for the world to see, it
> > the running of a one minute computer program. I have no doubt that one
> > could sufficiently automate Paypal, a website and home-brew computer
> > programs to fulfill 1000 book orders per day with no human intervention,
> > straight from author to reader. Bye bye middlemen!
>
> Yes, yes, yes, Steve.
> More: this is the future "market" to be fill up: no publishers/artists
> means that Word can't do any more all the huge REQUESTED job. This is the
> place where LyX rule. And you, proprietary software programmers stay away,
> cause the lot of the work is already done, and it's "open".
> One thing: what do you mean with "personalization"?

The logo "Prepared exclusively for John Johnson" appears in the footer of each 
page of a book ordered by John Johnson. When John's friend asks John for a 
copy, John declines to illegally copy the eBook because if the eBook ends up 
on a warez site or available on some site for download, it's traceable back 
to John Johnson. Obviously, someone knowledgeable of PDF format and structure 
could remove that footer, but personalizing is the best protection I can 
think of that doesn't involve DRM. I never buy anything with DRM, so I can't 
expect my customers to do so either.

One can also put an invisible secret code, traceable back to the purchase, in 
the PDF file.

HTH

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
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