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The other day I walked past a few used book stores. I'm quite sure many of the publishers are out of business - yet the books can be read. Books only available
by e12e 9y ago
The other day I walked past a few used book stores. I'm quite sure many of the publishers are out of business - yet the books can be read.
Books only available behind solid DRM will dissappear along with those who operate the drm system. Never mind the fact that they allow for virtual book burning by taking control over the DRM.
See Microsoft zune, yahoo music. Consider that we still read books that are 100s of years old, and ask yourself if you believe DRM will help or hinder the spread of books. Add to this the possibility of "banning" books in certain regions (as with Netflix, Amazon video) - the role of DRM in ensuring corporate profit (author rights and profits are hardly their raison d'être) - puts the world at unacceptable risk.
- criddell 9y agoCopyright doesn't last forever, but DRM can. That's actually a pretty big problem. Maybe DRM vendors should have to share the key and an unlock method with the librarian of Congress?
- leggomylibro 9y agoGood idea - and if the Feds think that asking for backdoors in encryption is reasonable, I don't see how they could possibly disagree with that.