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That is the publishers' dream, and they prevailed upon the U.S. government to enact the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. This law gives them total legal power over almost anything a reader might do with an e-book, as long as they publish the book in encrypted form. Even reading the book without authorization is a crime.