Thread: STUDY SHOWS: Ditching DRM could reduce piracy, prices
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Old 10-15-2011, 07:58 PM   #327
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Originally Posted by endobenthic View Post
Afternoon:

Since this is somewhat of a philisophical/morality question as well as a practical one ("STUDY SHOWS: Ditching DRM could reduce piracy, prices"), does DRM on library books make any more sense and is it therefor reasonable to expect for you the reader(s)?
Yes.

I finally managed to locate the library in my new home town and signed up for a library card earlier today. In the process I also checked out half a dozen hard cover books. When I did, the librarian who scanned them and my card informed me that they are due back in 30 days. If they are returned late, there will be a penalty fee. If they are never returned, I will be charged for them. This makes perfect sense to me, since they are borrowed books. They are not purchased, they have not become my property. I am allowed to take them home and read them, and when I have done that, I am expected to return them. That's the terms I agreed to when I signed my name on the signature line on the back of my new library card.

Because I don't expect to keep the borrowed books, I have no problem with the DRM on them. If the library sold me the book, it would be completely different, but libraries don't do that. They're letting me use the book for a time period they made sure to inform me of before I downloaded the eBook, and when the time is up, they expect me to give the book up. Which of course I will do, because that's my part in this agreement. They let me borrow books from them, and in return I promise to follow their rules.

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Originally Posted by Harmon View Post
The burden should be on the publishing industry to implement DRM in a fashion that does not violate the public's rights. It has not done this.

It does not matter that DRM might prevent theft of the content if, at the same time, it violates rights that the end user has under fair use. If DRM cannot be implemented without violating those rights, then it is DRM that must go, not the public's rights.
Beautifully phrased, and cutting right to the heart of the matter. Thank you for that.
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