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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Next, we need to go after those who check books out of the library. The damn filthy pirates use the book without paying.
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But seriously, folks, the entertainment companies would love to do just that. They want a system where you can't format shift, where you can't loan to a friend, or transfer from one device to another. They want to introduce the economics of scarcity into products that by their very nature are infinitely reproducible. They want the cultural status-quo that they've been leeching off for the last 100 years to remain. Pro-tip: they haven't got a chance. DRM is regularly cracked, copies float about in the miasmic tubes of teh Internets like water in the stream. Culture is freed daily from the shackles of its Masters and controllers. The cat is out of the bag, Pandora opened the box, the wrapping paper is off the X-Mas present.
EDIT: Oh, and another thing worth mentioning is that if the big corps had their way, all those beautiful, classic books in the PD we all enjoy so much, they wouldn't be there. Nope. They'd be copyrighted forever, DRM'd to the hilt and accessible only by paying.