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1: From a legal standpoint B&N are not doing anything illegal. Even if there were no new content at all they would still be within their rights to place DRM on any product they sell.
2: As for a "cultural conscience" standpoint, adding DRM to a PD work, published and distributed by a single company, does not in any way "lock up our culture". As has been pointed out(and mostly ignored for some reason) the PD work itself remains free to distribute and free to obtain elsewhere if one so chooses.
3: As for the DRM itself, is a lock a lock if it does not lock? As has been argued by many on here ad nauseum "DRM doesn't work". So is B&N really placing a "lock" on the PD work at all if this lock does not actually lock?(disregarding the fact that they are not locking up the PD work itself anyway but only their published version of it) And if they are not actually locking up their version of this PD work, but only appear to be, then what is really the issue?
Cheers,
PKFFW
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