@All
Grab a coffee, you'll need it if you plan to actually read all this :-D

Will the analogue book get pirated?
Yes!

Will people who get the pirated digital version, get what the genuine purchasers of the analogue version get out of it?
No, because they won't get a physical large-format, hard-back book with a fancy embossed cover - will they.

It's just getting too repetitive, I'm pulling out of this conversation before I give myself a serious headache.  It's like Roxie said, as long as you're not dumb enough to surrender to digital piracy yourself, don't worry about it, the ever faithfull and dependable analogue world is there for you - and always will be.  So here is my last post on the subject cause seriously, I think there is something fundamentally wrong here, and I'm pretty damn sure it's not my understanding of things, because I'm not effected by theses things - you lot are.

Here we go ... and I've added a tag for the language because it's gotten to that point now (though it's all in good fun).

I would never base my livelyhood on anything that can be transmitted through a freaking torrent, because to do so would but incredibly stupid and risky.  I'll never have to worry about such things because I'll never rely on digital for anything, nevermind my livelyhood!  Copies of physical products can be transmitted throught a torrent, sure, but the physical product itself can never be transmitted, so as long as what you produce is physical, you shouldn't give a rats-ass about piracy or pirates.  Seriously you all, I think you need to figure this one out for yourselves (and I really hope for your own sakes, that you do).  The problems you face are the result of the decisions you make, just as torrent pirates are a result of the technology they are taking advantage of - "Digital".

I'll stick to the "Analogue" world, the technology the real world is actually made of, and being analogue myself, I guess you could say I have an affinity for it.

I don't worry about pirates, because all my media is physical.  I don't worry about Apple and Adobe spying on me, or cutting-off my right to use something I paid for, because I don't use their products or software - I don't abide by their manipulative policies.  I don't need permission to sell my media because I do whatever I like with it, it's in my possession, so if I want to sell something, I do whatever the hell I want!  I don't have Apple or Amazon telling me I can't transfer ownership of something I paid for, or how many times I can lend a book to someone, because I wasn't dumb enough to purchase "virtual products" from them in the first place!  I don't worry about whether the "codec" or "DRM" of a track is compatible with my music player, cause my music player plays "real" analogue audio, so things like "Codecs" and "DRM" don't even exist!  My Analogue Walkman laughs in the bloody face of DRM and codecs!  Codecs and DRM are strictly for people who believe in all that worthless, compressed, inferior, manipulative junk - cause that's all it is - it's just manipulative, worthless, compressed junk - that stuff insn't even real in the proper sense!

I was saying just the other day, I said hey there Sony Walkman, you sexy little Cassette machine, what do you reckon to the DRM and Codec situation then?
You know what she said? - She said shut the fuck up, don't be disgusting, just poke me with a Cassette and let's got for a walk, so we did - and it was nice!

I'm perfectly happy because I'm free.  I don't have much, in fact I'm piss-poor (seriously), but I'm still happy.  I was never sucked into borrowing money, so I don't owe money, never will, and I'll never been sucked into what Adobe and Apple want everyone to do, either.  I do what I want to do, cause I'm "ME" and no one owns "ME".  I'll never put myself in a situation where some acne-covered geek from Silicon Valley has control over me, or can tell me what to do with my own gear or media - it ain't ever gonna happen, man!

I'm an adult, so naturally I stopped taking orders when I turned 18 years of age - and I think you should, too!
I don't take orders from Apple or Adobe, they don't get anything from me, and that's the way it will stay to because to me, they are cancers to be avoided.

Whatever turns you all on I suppose, and yes, enjoy "Digital" by all means, I even enjoy aspects of it myself.  But you need to accept that the rest of us will continue to enjoy the "Analogue" world, the "real" world, a world that is guaranteed to be available forever, a world that will still be around long after the likes of Apple and Adobe are dead and buried along with everything "virtual" you ever purchased from them!

My physical stuff is mine, it's going nowhere, it will only ever go where I say it will go ... not where Apple dictates, or Adobe, or Microsoft ... only ME gets to makes those decisions because ME lives in the real world, and therefore all my stuff is "real" too :-D

I don't do digital slavery (digital handcuffs), I don't work for "virtual nothings", in fact I don't work at all.  I don't do fucking "bunny jumps" for Adobe or anyone else.  When I look around me, I'm surrounded by superior technology and gear I love, and none of it is under the control of a corporation, not now, not ever.  I don't have a greedy corporation sucking on my wallet, never will, what's mine is mine - and that's the way it's going to stay.

I watch the Apple keynote every time they release one, I mean I literally cannot wait to watch them, because each time I do, I just sort of know I'm going to laugh my self bloody senseless!  Whenever I hear that Apple have an new "keynote" to watch, it's kinda like an entertaining night out for me.  I grab my Walkman, go for a walk, pick-up a Donner Kebab from the takeaway.  I come back, I sit down with my Donner Kebab and prepare to catch-up on the next wave of privacy-invasive features Apple have planned for their sheep (features those sheep are actually going to pay Apple money for as well).

Health monitor, how unfit people are, yeah, that's right, I'm talkin' to all you fatties out there, you know who you are, and no point denying it cause your built-in spyCam probably caught those ManBoobs when it was your bed time!  Fingerprints, photos, voice patterns, bank account details, the ability for them to monitor you without even turning the device on!  The ability to have hot women accidentally sent to your mothers spyPhone, cause maybe your mother is dumb enough to own one as well, and you forgot to turn the synchronisation crap off before you visited wickedweasel.com

And "Facetime" - yeah, that's right, it was just marketing and had nothing to do with having a hot woman sit on your face!
Trades description act really should be told about that one I reckon ... oh my god ... the sly bastards.

All this, all of this can be yours, dear minion, because it's Apple's thinnest, lightest, most shiny iPhone ever!  And hey, can you belive it, they even managed to shave a whole fucking micrometer off it since the last one, so hey, that has got to be worth paying 800 fucking dollars for, right, gotta have that!

• Do you know how many Vinyl's you can buy for 800 fucking dollars?
• Do you know what a beeeeeeeeeautiful, classy Turntable that would buy?
• Do you know what real Hi-Fi sounds like?
• Do you know what its like to actually own something you paid for?
• Do you know how much more money this stuff will still be worth long after "Apple" decides that "your" iPhone is going to be obsolete?

I do, but then I don't live in a fantasy world of "virtual nothings" and greedy corporations - they simply have no place in my world, what ... so ... ever.
Their shit just doesn't bother me, it's just infortunate that I hate to see others being sucked in by it - that is what bothers me!

And you know what, call me a wise-ass if you want to, but between you and me, I reckon Apple's next spyPad and spyPhone will be even better than the current ones.  I reckon they will be thinner, lighter, faster, and more privacy-invasive than the current heap of models!  The resolution will be so fine that you can purify water by pouring it throught the bloody screen mesh, perfect for those of you with eyes like a microscope!  And when it comes, when I see that price pop-up on that large projector screen of theirs in the next Keynote, I'll just sit here and think about what else I would spend that money on ...

REAL STUFF :-D

I sincerely hope you all appreciate the effort I went to with this post, I guess probably not, but I wish you all the best regardless, cause that's the kinda guy I am.  I'm not some rusty old guy having a mid-life crisis, either, I'm still young, but what you can't see, unfortunately, is that also have common sense!