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Tag Archives: DRM
Ebook Stupidity
I haven’t written about the publishing industry for some time but a recent post by hoakley over at The Eclectic Light Company has reignited my rage. Publishers have been doing things the same way for hundreds of years and don’t … Continue reading
Microsoft Ebooks: The Past Comes Due
It’s no longer news that Microsoft is closing down their ebook authentication server and those who have paid Microsoft for ebooks will shortly be unable to read them. It’s easy to say it’s their own fault and that’s not wrong … Continue reading
Some Small Progress on the DRM Front
In a rare moment of sanity, the U.S. Government has agreed that, yes, you can fix your own electronics even if the manufacturer has slapped DRM on the firmware to prevent it. It would be interesting to see the rationale … Continue reading
Where Are My Torrents?
Matt Might wonders why he can’t find a torrent for a BBC show.
Surprise!
Here’s a surprise. Netflix is offering further proof—if you needed it—that piracy is mostly a phenomenon of the content industry’s own making. Netflix reports that when they enter a new territory, BitTorrent traffic is drastically reduced. This suggests, as we’ve … Continue reading
DRM-Free Day
Today is DRM-free day. To celebrate O’Reilly is offering 50% off on their entire ebook inventory1. I used the occasion to pick up a copy of Writing GNU Emacs Extensions. If you have any O’Reilly books on your “to purchase” … Continue reading
Amazon and DRM
Over at Attendly.com John Birmingham has a provocative article entitled When It Comes To DRM, Amazon Is A Bottom Feeding Hell Beast. That is, to put it mildly, a bit hyperbolic but Birmingham has a serious point. A point that … Continue reading
John Gruber On The Latest DVD Silliness
ars technica is reporting that DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings. These warnings—the usual nonsense about going to hell and jail if you copy the DVD/Blue-ray—will be shown back-to-back for 10 seconds each and will be … Continue reading
And So It Begins
Tor/Forge, part of the Macmillan empire announced that they will start shipping their ebooks without DRM starting in July. This is the beginning of the DRM death spiral predicted by Charlie Stross (although he has tempered that prediction a bit … Continue reading
More On The Death Of DRM
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has his own take on the Charlie Stross post that I wrote about yesterday. Like me, Gruber thinks it’s a great post and that Stross is right in his beliefs of what it means … Continue reading