i actually thought the canuk court decision was a right one (for a change!). the fact that the logistics of pcopying a billion books is unfeasable but pcopying a billion music files is feasable has nothing to do with it. they look at the process, and the process seem the same, and they made their decision based on it.

the bottom line: (and here is my anarchist side talking away) the music industy was run my greedy f&*kwits that knew they were milking consumers for all they were worth and laughing all the way to the bank. technology advanced. consumers found a way to not get milked dry and took advantage of it. the music industry tried and couldn't for the life of it find a way to make any money from this new technology (that they helped invent and push out to consumers in the first place because they were trying to find yet more ways to milk more money out of consumers!!!) - so now the music industry is crying shenanigans. as blob dylan once wrote, "the first one now shall later be last!".

let me time warp your memories. do you remember in the 80's when CD's were coming out and they were charging you $40 to $50 per CD? a CD that cost them under $1 to manufacture at the time!! later on it cost them under $0.10 to manufacture. and they were still charging $20 10 yrs later. find my one industry that has that sort fo markup! do you remember how many times you blew $20 on a CD just to realize the the whole thing was crap and the only good song was the one that they played on the radio?

and that brings me to e-books. in particular, tech geek e-books. i am pretty sure i got at least $2,000 worth of geek e-books by syngress, wiley, microsoft et la in my possession that i d/l'ed and didn't pay a cent for. why? because they sell the books for around $100 in the store and less that 6 months later, the book is in a bargain bin for $5.00! i got sick & tired of blowing so much cash on "door stopper" books that lost all value in such a short time!. an ebook is a "copy" of a book. it's not the same quality as a printed & bound paper book. not as conventient to read it - you usually have to user your own printer to print it. you are not getting the same service as you would when youo pay wiley for a book. yet it's a book. and it's relatively feasable to copy a billion on them in a short period of time - just like music files.