02-12-2012, 06:07 AM | #61 |
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I don't understand all this about the EULA. I always click on 'I Agree', because it doesn't matter what is in it. I don't know how it is in other countries, but here in the Netherlands the law ALWAYS goes above the EULA. So, if the law allows me to make a copy for personal usage (which it does), I can ignore the EULA for that.
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02-12-2012, 06:49 AM | #62 |
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EULAs mean about as much as the tags on matresses saying that it is illegal to remove them.
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02-12-2012, 06:54 AM | #63 |
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If this goes through would mean the end of the WORLD as we know it.
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02-12-2012, 09:55 AM | #64 |
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02-12-2012, 09:56 AM | #65 |
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02-12-2012, 01:35 PM | #66 | |
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Until Amazon goes bankrupt. Then you are left with a useless pile of digital crap. |
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02-12-2012, 02:25 PM | #67 |
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The thing about EULAs that I have always wondered about:
How can a EULA possibly be a binding contract if you haven't signed it? Clicking to "yes, I agree" is hardly the same thing as signing an actual contract. Has this issue ever been resolved in a court? And if it's not a binding contract, then it would seem that a digital purchase is merely a "sale," not a license. |
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Based on the arguments of choosing pdf over any reflow format one would expect pdf to be the format of choice when it comes to digital books of the kind that O'Reilly has to offer. According to the graph they sold 10 times less pdf files in 2010 compared to 2008. |
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02-12-2012, 05:06 PM | #70 | |
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Every time I opened a book I would be charged for reading it. Or maybe I could, in effect, purchase a subscription to, say, The Grapes of Wrath. This isn't a prediction and I doubt it will happen. What I don't doubt is that publishers would be perfectly happy with this or a similar arrangement. Incrementally, it's the direction they're moving. |
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Bottom line? Let the market decide what, if any, format should be the one to rule them all. As to DRM, it will continue until some better scheme to protect the rights of content creators appears. Last edited by stonetools; 02-12-2012 at 07:38 PM. |
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02-12-2012, 05:42 PM | #72 |
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If music revenues are down it is because we consumers now have the ability to buy our music per song and not be stuck buying a more expensive album for one or two songs surrounded by 8 other garbage pieces.
It might be a small loss for record companies, but a win for us consumers. When these companies start finding real talent that can put out albums that all 10 songs are worth purchasing the album for, we will continue only buying the one or two songs we actually like. Since the debacle of the competing VCR formats, these companies have stupidly continued to put out competing formats wasting millions of dollars and frustrating millions of consumers who will stay on the sidelines until the dust settles and machines are designed that will utilize BOTH competing formats. I didn't get a DVD until Pioneer came out with the DV47A that can play both SACD's & DVD-A's which I still have. I refuse to get caught in a format war between competing companies. I will stick with epub, because I refuse to be locked into Amazon, B&N, or Apples ecosystem. There is no such thing as a company that will NEVER go out of business. Publishers can continue with their idiotic drm, and consumers will continue to utilizing the tools needed to remove the drm so that we can keep OUR property! Last edited by cfrizz; 02-12-2012 at 05:51 PM. |
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Or those of us who have a harder time with DRM removal simply will buy less to none, and borrow books from the library
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