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Your point is they can which I accept.

Mine is that 99.999% of the time they won't.

Almost all limits on people's behaviour in society aren't around what they can or can't do, they're around what they will or won't do. If you annoy me I can stab you but I don't because society is structured such that it isn't in my interest to do so.

Behaviour isn't primarily only controlled by what's possible, it's controlled by what's rewarded and punished.

The same mechanism that prevents you from being a victim of random stabbing means that while in principal your eBooks are vulnerable, in practice they're safe.




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