08-20-2010, 05:54 PM | #1 |
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Medieval Copy Protection
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08-21-2010, 04:40 AM | #2 |
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That is fascinating, Nyrath. Many thanks for the link. I've been in tihs game a long, long time and I'd never heard of 'book curses before'. Here's karma to ya for the enlightenment. Very best. Neil
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08-21-2010, 05:40 AM | #3 |
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08-21-2010, 05:44 AM | #4 |
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Despite a millennium worth of technological development, things didn't change much since then. Current copy protection systems are equally ineffective. There might be a pattern hidden somewhere.
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08-21-2010, 10:52 PM | #5 |
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Ah...book curse.
I was thinking something simpler, like: kill all the scribes! |
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08-22-2010, 07:00 AM | #6 |
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There are still similar things today, but they need to appeal to something other than a curse. Videos often start with scare/shaming tactics ("you wouldn't steal a car! ... etc." - I wonder whether they release these in Liverpool?), and some from indie producers start with appeals to your better nature ("please don't copy this, we're only little ..."). Sadly, the pirate copies simply miss these bits out (and all the other rubbish that they put in to annoy legitimate purchasers - bah!)
Smashwords books often start with some blurb asking you not to copy them (and at the end often too). Perhaps they should add a curse in. |
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Very interesting article, thanks for posting it ....
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08-22-2010, 07:46 AM | #8 |
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I seem to remember a case where pages of a very old pirated book were poisoned. And unlicensed monks reading the book licked their fingers when turning pages, and so died horribly.
Current DRM-technologies have some way left to go... Last edited by Adoby; 08-22-2010 at 07:47 AM. Reason: speling fix |
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The poison-paged book made an appearance in the novel and movie THE NAME OF THE ROSE |
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08-22-2010, 08:17 AM | #10 |
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But the points made in this thread are very true: the motives on the part of some for copy protection are hundreds of years old, and apparently so is their lack of effectiveness.
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08-22-2010, 10:58 AM | #11 |
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But when it could quite literally be a lifetime's work for a monk to produce one copy of a book for a monastery library, books were objects almost without price, and their theft was regarded as a truly monstrous crime.
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08-22-2010, 01:52 PM | #12 |
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These days, if you did put a curse on anyone pirating your book, and then someone actually died, you would probably be sued.
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08-22-2010, 02:19 PM | #13 |
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Quite true. You can actually be sued if you put some kind of "trap" against thieves in your house and a thief falls in it. I mean you can be sued and fined.
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08-22-2010, 02:19 PM | #14 |
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These days, if someone pirated your book for "unlicensed redistribution", sales would likely go up!
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08-22-2010, 04:47 PM | #15 |
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