06-06-2010, 03:25 PM | #31 |
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One of the few UK MPs that turned up to debate our similar new law thought that an IP address meant Intelectual Property address. Probably thought that was where you download all this "illegal" content from that is costing the country 60 billion dollars a week.
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06-06-2010, 03:29 PM | #34 |
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I couldn't unlock a book I got from Barnes & Noble a couple of weeks ago, I don't know if that is because they updated it or I'm just a bit crap. It was a free book too. Why bother protecting a free book?
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06-06-2010, 03:51 PM | #35 |
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06-06-2010, 04:01 PM | #36 |
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I don't think financial gain will be the major motivation behind any new writer, that would only come later when they realised that they might be able to make a living doing it. People write because they have something to say. Always have, always will. The cream will still rise to the top, just the same as it always has. Along with the scum. |
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Barnes & Noble DRM is different than regular epub DRM, but it has been cracked too, as far as I know. And they 'protect' free books because you still have to go to THEM to get them. You have to register and be on their database to get them. They're not for just anyone! |
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06-06-2010, 04:27 PM | #41 |
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The history of such stuff, as long as I've been observing it, has been for the status quo to vigorously oppose all new technology that they don't control, for them to be overrun by it, and eventually, they learn to turn it to their financial advantage.
You get some interesting failures along the way, such as the original DIVX DVD system (buy the DVD, you get to watch it for 48 hours before incurring extra fees) and self-destructing DVDs that became unplayable a short time after opening the sealed package. Eventually the market decides what it wants, and smart companies make money by providing that. |
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I've not come across "self-destructing" DVDs, but they sound like a great idea for rentals, because they wouldn't have to be returned. You could put them in vending machines, for example. How did they work? A slow oxidation process once the packet was opened?
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I recall that William Gibson released a short story on a self-destructing floppy disc at one point. I'm not sure how it worked. I'm guessing in that case it was a virus. I'm not sure how a self-destructing DVD would work, be interesting if anyone had the answer to that one.
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06-06-2010, 05:22 PM | #45 |
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Inspector Gadget was always given his orders on self-destructing pieces of paper.
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