Quote:
Originally Posted by Akshayy
This also is funny. LOL...
conspiracy ..a bunch of companies scamming, sounds like a business plan!
seeing too many of movies like wolf of wall street ?
|
Well, now, in the US we are in the latter phases of cleaning up the wreckage left behind by a conspiracy of publishers and one device maker.
And anybody who looks closely at the practices of the BPHs will quickly notice they have always been about concerted action; when they set author contract terms, they set them in lockstep. They are "industry standard" terms. If non-compete clauses appear at one publisher, they appear in all of them. If ebook terms change overnight to 25% of net, with net defined as whatever the publisher decides it is, the terms change everywhere.
So the idea of the piracy-obsessed publishers telling their close personal friend Adobe (which derives a good deal of the power and money from the business, patronage, and sanction of those same publishers) to tighten up DRM at any cost does not sound particularly far-fetched, but more like business as usual. In fact, that july deadline? Not one of the BPHs complained, did they? Makes it sound like they knew it was coming. And Adobe's "retreat"? Who gets to decide when and where to switch DRM? The publishers! Wanna bet they all force the switch simultaneously?
No need to be a wild conspiracy theorist when it comes to the publishing business; it is a matter of public record that they do it all the time.