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I have a physical library of about 5K books. Should he want to, my son will be able to read those books. The DRM'd books are a different story. I still want my
by kabdib 14y ago
I have a physical library of about 5K books. Should he want to, my son will be able to read those books.
The DRM'd books are a different story. I still want my son to be able to read them, but I have no assurance that the ebooks will be available to him fifteen years from now.
So I yank the DRM from all of my Amazon purchases. These I put on backups. I do not share them.
I would like to see legislation about the ownership of digital content, requiring that purchased content be accessible /at all times/ -- held in escrow, if necessary. Clearly defining a purchase is probably part of this.
- lukeschlather 14y agoIs there support for this kind of legislation? It seems like a common sense antecedent to the DMCA - if I'm legally prohibited from circumventing DRM, companies should be legally required to provide a means to shift that content to other media - failure to do this on request should void the DMCA's protections against unauthorized copying.
- gknoy 14y agoI'm sure that any user you asked about it would love that, but support for legislation requires lobbying, and no group of users can match the dollars thrown at congress by media interests who have no such desires.
- imgabe 14y agoI believe that removing copy protection from DVDs for the purposes of making backup copies was found to not be in violation of copyright laws, I don't see why the same shouldn't apply to ebooks.