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Well, you can go back to at least the Middle Ages in Europe, when valuable books were sometimes chained in place in monasteries or libraries to keep people from
by zyxley 11y ago
Well, you can go back to at least the Middle Ages in Europe, when valuable books were sometimes chained in place in monasteries or libraries to keep people from running off with them.
- viraptor 11y agoThat's not DRM though. Nobody stopped you from making a copy without the chain. (apart from the fact that it would take ages and be quite expensive a the time) Actual theft protection is not DRM.
- bitJericho 11y agoRight DRM is not copy protection. DRM is about keeping legitimate buyers from exercising free trade. You can't buy up a dozen games on steam, for example, and resell the games on. Of course people still do, but that's what steam's drm is intended to quell. You can't take a bluray, make a copy, upload it to somebody's email for a price, and destroy the original. This is a perfectly honest thing to do, it's super easy to do, but it's incredibly risky in the US to do it.
- djent 11y agoPhysical books are not digital, therefore cannot have DRM. Also, DRM is about managing the "rights" of the copyrighted material's producer - not the end user. Chaining books in a public place maintains the book from being physically stolen, taken from the public's possession.
- JadeNB 11y agoI would just like to take a break from the very literal responses (I admit I immediately thought "that's not digital" too) to say that this made me laugh. :-)