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The $399/yr doesn't make sense for a lot of people. It definitely is too high a price point for me as I only read 1 or 2 O'Reilly books a year at most. It's nic
by kin 9y ago
The $399/yr doesn't make sense for a lot of people. It definitely is too high a price point for me as I only read 1 or 2 O'Reilly books a year at most. It's nice to have a copy lying around for reference years later.
On the flip side, I totally understand them going DRM-only for digital publishers. O'Reilly PDFs are way too easy to find for free with minimal Google-fu.
- nathanasmith 9y agoThe DRM won't change the availability of O'Reilly books on pirate sites in the least.
- kronos29296 9y agoOnly thing that will change with DRM is less Google-fu and more Pirate-fu which people with good google-fu also have in abundance.
- swiley 9y agoYeah there's absolutely no way I would ever pay for something with DRM. This will end up going the way the textbooks went.
- starsinspace 9y ago> On the flip side, I totally understand them going DRM-only for digital publishers. Has the introduction of evermore draconian DRM in movie disc formats prevented them from appearing on pirate sites?
- Spivak 9y agoDoes DRM claim to accomplish that? Sure, they appear eventually but it does slow people down and raises the technical knowledge bar required to do so.