[LAU] OT - Digital Rights

I went to a talk many months back on the IEEE working group P1817 sometime standard aimed at helping people to be able to treat their digital property more like they treat their physical property. For example, you can loan someone a CD or DVD, and then they give it back or you don't loan stuff to them again. Why shouldn't that work for an electronic copy? Why shouldn't you be able to sell your e-book when your done with it? How should a library deal with loaning of e-books? How about loaning an e-book over the net? Anyway, it was pretty interesting stuff to me. I thought there might be an interest in this, given recent discussions here. Here's a blurb on it. http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1817/pub_docs/ORtalk_final_posted.pdf It's not perfect, but anything that helps get commerce in digital goods flowing in a more sane manner is nice to me. Cheerio... -- Kevin