Thread: Why are DRM ebooks evil and why should I avoid them like the plague?
View Single Post
Old 04-06-2011, 03:14 PM   #150
wodin
Illiterate
wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
wodin's Avatar
 
Posts: 10,279
Karma: 37848716
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The Sandwich Isles
Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro
Quote:
Originally Posted by rogue_librarian View Post
This is technically true, of course. It it doesn't get extended again (Hello, Disney!) we're talking about life + 70 years. Unless we are talking about re-releases near the end of that term (where the author has been dead for, say, 60+ years) I don't think we'll have to worry about that just yet, certainly not for new books by a living author. The file will long since have become unreadable anyway before copyright expires.

Even so: PD books, too, come with DRM these days. Ridiculous, but there you have it.
Oh? Remember the Atlas Shrugged fiasco?
wodin is offline   Reply With Quote