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Very curious (and nervous, as I can imagine more bad outcomes than good ones) as somebody that frequently lends ebooks from libraries supporting LCP. (The only
by lxgr 2y ago
Very curious (and nervous, as I can imagine more bad outcomes than good ones) as somebody that frequently lends ebooks from libraries supporting LCP. (The only thing worse than "controlled" digital lending would be no digital lending at all.)
LCP is as close to the platonic ideal of DRM as it gets: Essentially no obfuscation; cryptography largely something to point at when filing DMCA takedown requests. For better or worse, I suspect we're about to get some new case law for what constitutes an effective technical measure.