DRM: just another form of overreach.
{It assumes that the user is not, and cannot be, the owner of the protected material.}
I love my Nook. Surely Barnes and Noble won’t do that, as they are book sellers above all else.
In other words, they steal the ebooks from the owner.
She’s better off without gay loving Amazon.
This article says Amazon “seeks to control what content is read in which territory of the World.”
That’s not an accurate description of what is going on.
Amazon signs contracts with publishers, and the publishers specify which countries Amazon may sell the online books to.
There may be multiple publishers of a book, each having licensing rights to a different part of the world.
Or a publisher might decide for marketing reasons to only allow the book to be sold in a certain country. They might decide to charge a different price in a different country, and it’s up to Amazon to stop people bypassing the region restrictions with Proxies.
I really doubt Amazon would arbitrarily want to stop sales in a particular country if they weren’t required to do so by their contract agreement.
Paper. There’s nothing like it. And no digital crooks to reach into your bookshelf.
A topic that is gaining attention : electronic property rights.
You buy an eBook (or at least the license) and you die. Do your heirs have the right to access that book? Ditto for music and videos from places like iTunes etc.
And say that you store your family photos on line (e.g. Photobucket or DropBox) rather than a hard drive or prints in a shoe box. After you die, do they essentially evaporate into cyberspace or can your heirs control these?
A lawyer’s wet dream !
Let ‘em try to take my real books.
I HEART Amazon. For directing me to sellers who sell books for $0.01 + shipping.
This whole DRM thing is moot once you have the .epub file in your hands. These nook books are just zipped up html files with a .epub file extension. You can make your own with zip.exe if you have the need or desire.
Anyone who doesn’t have all their books backed up on another computer system shouldn’t own a nook anyway...or they have too much money. You can copy the files anywhere you want and share them with anyone.
This is why you should always have local copies of any digital books with their DRM broken. I crack every single book I get. As long as it is DRM’d, it’s not really yours.
I LOVE IT!!!!
People jump HEAD FIRST into this crap and it never occurs to them that a SINGLE COMMAND can wipe out everything she has.
She is an IDIOT and deserves her punishment.
How Farenheit 451 will work in the 21st century. Trick everyone into putting all literary knowledge on electronic devices. Then wipe it blank.