From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2004-07-11T07:28:27+09:00 Subject: Re: PickAxe 2 licensing Hello Matthew, MM> I don't think a pdf or web page can offer any real security in terms of MM> distribution. Even if you password protect a pdf the document can be MM> distributed by a sharer with a text file containing the access code. A copy protection schema is just there to keep honest people honest. Nothing else. There are hundrets of books, from PDF's to privately scanned onces like Stevens famous "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" available via my "EMule" P2P network. Even "The Ruby Way" and "Ruby in 21 days" are available illegally. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's