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How does that address the stated problem.
" Educational publishers, for example, face the prospect of a whole product line being wiped out from a few file swaps. Carline Haga, director of the global rights group for textbook publisher Thomson Learning, said the publisher's biggest copy protection headaches come from illicit copies of the sample test questions teachers get as part of a textbook package.

One purloined test key can mean a book has to be junked, Haga said, resulting in a potential loss of $20 million for a popular textbook. "We've seen more and more of these teacher solution manuals showing up on peer-to-peer networks, eBay and other places," she said. "Once that happens, it can kill a textbook...It means we're in a position where our biggest concern isn't protecting the things we sell, but the things we give away."

I see nothing in what you said that replaces the lost $20 million.
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Phantasms  Yagotta B. Kidding | 08/18/04
Thanks for that.  Yen_z | 08/18/04
Oh no!!!  Flablooie | 08/18/04
How does that address the stated problem.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/18/04
But DRM can't solve it  Fred Fredrickson | 08/18/04
There is no problem  Patrick Jones | 08/19/04
So they are just imagining these problems?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/19/04
What's your point?  voska | 08/19/04
They're manufacturing the problem, not imagining it.  Letophoro | 08/19/04
Got it backwards in Canada  voska | 08/19/04
Sources  Letophoro | 08/19/04
And ZDNET is incorrect  voska | 08/19/04
It will be interesting if it ever goes to court  voska | 08/19/04
Additional sources  Letophoro | 08/19/04
Yes  Patrick Jones | 08/19/04
So this is different from  Hanover Phist | 08/19/04
Problem, Unmentioned and unsolved  Update victim | 08/18/04
Microsoft rep says DRM can go too far...  Anton Philidor | 08/18/04
MS is really not in that business  j.m.galvin | 08/19/04
Looks like ZDNet took the day off.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 08/19/04
Additional sources.  Letophoro | 08/19/04
Oops, wrong location.  Letophoro | 08/19/04

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