In a Moscow apartment, year 2018.
-Dad, may I withdraw $99 from your card? To pay for a book...
-What book?
-Dostoevsky. "Crime and punishment".
-But why to buy? We have it.
-Really? In which file?
-Why a file? Here it is, on the shelf.
-Phu-u. But this is a paper book!
-So what? When I was young like you I read it.
-When you were young, when you were young... There is no search there. 
How will I find the cites? No audio, no animation.
Only text, even the font one cannot change... They will
ridicule me at school! Read such books yourself.
-OK. Here, take a DVD. I bought it 15 years ago.
-What? DVD? How do you think will I read it? You can give
this to a museum. Perhaps you will also give me a
punched tape with Dostoevsky!?
-If you are so smart, search on the web, and download for free.
-To download a book for free?!
-Of course. Why not? There is no copyright on Dostoevsky's books.
Surely it can be found somewhere.
-What are you talking about! Perhaps in your time,
in the beginning of the century they downloaded books for free.
Have not you heard that already 5 years all copyright
on all books belongs to the American Publishers Association?
Or you want me to go to prison for life, like this Dmitry Sklyarov?
-But Dostoevsky is not an American! What does this have to
to with American publishers?
-Who cares? Dad, you are not an anti-globalist by chance?
-Oh, no! Sorry, to spend $100 for a file...
Why don't you ask your classmates? Surely they have it.
And you will give them some other file...
-If they give me their Dostoevsky file, how will I read it?
-What do you mean "how"? On your computer.
-Dad, you are really backward. A book can be read only
from that computer  from which it was bought. And the
polarization code will be different...
Shortly speaking, dad, give me the money. I will buy
a normal book for myself.
-OK, here is a password for one-time withdrawal of
$99 from our account. In our time $100 was a substantial money...
-OK, I downloaded it. Thanks.
-Well, let me see... Listen, but what sort of pictures are
these? There was no such things in the novel...
-But these are banners. Without banners it would cost $699.

Open file contains advertisements:
"Axe Professional 2018 - modern axes with laser sharpening";
"Cosmetic cabinet "With Liza""; "Tired with the problems?
Psychological service "Porphyry""; "Loans, cash. Low interest".
"Raskolnikov.com -delivery of old ladies to any point on the globe".
-Listen my son, I cannot see any novel text. Should we
wait until the banners disappear?
-You seem to be from the moon. You will wait 100 years.
You can only see the text through the polarized eyeglasses.
Without the eyeglasses you can see only advertisement.
-And what is this for?
-What do you mean what for? So that nobody could read it
except the one who payed!
Just think: I could buy the book, and someone
who did not buy anything could read over my shoulder!
-What a stupidity! But what if I also use eyeglasses?
-You are joking! The file is tuned to my eyeglasses.
On other eyeglasses the polarization code is different.
-OK, give me your eyeglasses. I just want to look.
-How will you look?  They recognize your retina. You will see nothing,
except the message that you are wearing somebody's eyeglasses.
OK, dad, do not disturb me, please.
I have to read it before the license expired,
to read everything quickly. Otherwise I will have either
to extend the file license or the book will destroy itself.
Don't bother me, please...

3 hours later.
-Well, I finished! I read it!
-All of it? "Crime and punishment" in 3 hours?
-Yes, of course. I could even do it faster, if not the
breaks for advertisement every 1/2 hour.
-I don't believe you! Who was Svidrigailov, for example?
-Who?
-OK, I understand. Who was Luzhin? Who was Sonia?
-How do I now? I read the Home Edition.
It is only about Raskolnikov who killed an old lady
with an ax, and then gave himself in.
About all the others one has to buy a Professional version,
or even an Enterprise Edition.
We don't have that much money.
-That's terrible. Where does the world go!
-It is already there. You had to think about this 15
years ago if not earlier.