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Pan Macmillan: DRM Is Not Evil
From the blog of Pan Macmillan's digital team, an interesting take on DRM:
http://thedigitalist.net/?p=624 Excerpt: Quote:
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07-14-2009, 07:00 PM | #2 |
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this guy makes some interesting points, but at heart he seems still to be clinging to the same old flawed premise, that drm is the only way to prevent people copying massively. arg !! drm-free != automatic copyright infringement. and moreover, drm != protection from copying ! on the contrary ! sheesh !
thanks for posting the link, it's interesting to see what publishers are thinking, particularly those who actually are going the drm-free route (at least partially). the comments are very interesting so far. |
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I've been using the internet for 15 years - the first two or three without a web browser at all, and before that I used and ran BBS's. If people want to copy something, they'll find a way, and DRM will only serve to stop legitimate customers from using the product sold to them legitimately.
Amazon is the only company that seems to have gotten things (almost) right in regards to drm'd ebooks, but they've also managed to dissuade people already invested in ebooks by being exclusive instead of inclusive to what's already out on the market and has already been sold to consumers. |
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07-14-2009, 08:05 PM | #8 |
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Had a reading assignment in middle school where the book was either too expensive or out of print, so the teacher photocopied off 29 copies. This was in a rather affluent community too.
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07-14-2009, 08:10 PM | #9 |
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Students did it all the time at least at University level. Now I think they just scan the book (if it is very expensive) and distribute the pdf.
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There is a whole culture of people who digitize books now, either via scanner or via digital photo. It's become quite sophisticated, with groups of people splitting a book up. I am willing to wager just about any book with any readership at all is available somewhere on the darknet in ebook format. So using DRM or not publishing a book as an ebook doesn't effect piracy in the slightest.
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DRM is the red rag to the bull. You put DRM on your media product it will attract hackers, not out of any desire for your product, but the desire to circumnvent your locks. It's at that level where DRM is most flawed. The one thing its supposed to do; protect the product from reproduction, it can never do. Hence it is as useless as pair of spectacles made from chocolate.
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07-15-2009, 01:58 AM | #14 |
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I agree with this basic premise: DRM is not evil.
Some implementations of DRM are evil. Making DRM so that you can only read it on a certain device is evil. Making DRM so that you don't want to distribute it, isn't. While I agree with Moejoe, an encrypted file will always attract hacker, you can make it harder for the non-hacker to distribute a file, especially if you encrypt it with personal data. As long as you can read it on any reader you want, most people won't complain. |
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I know in Peru buying cheaply bound photocopies of books was the cheaper way to get school textbooks, and I hear making your own copies is a widespread practice in South American colleges. Also, don't people who ORC books so that they may be digitally distributed perform a similar physical labor? Or people who sold pirated editions of books before the internet; did they not also photocopy the entire book?
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