Thread: On the table: DRM trumps fair dealing (Canada)
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Old 06-06-2010, 03:24 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post

Much as I'd like to see the abolition of DRM, I honestly believe that's an unrealistic goal.
Books will follow the same path as music. It has so far, with the same mistakes being made at each point along the way. So far the only thing that the book publishers did differently was that they didn't try to block the manufacture of standalone ebook readers like the music publishers tried to do with mp3 players.
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