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Old 07-22-2015, 08:41 AM   #1
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"DRM" in Ye Olden Days
Chain, Chest, Curse: Combating Book Theft in Medieval Times
http://medievalbooks.nl/2015/07/10/c...edieval-times/

In addition to the practical physical protection afforded by chains and book chests, curses offered a more ethereal form of "DRM".

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Considering these two practical theft-prevention techniques – chaining your books to something unmovable or putting them into a safe – the third seems kind of odd: to write a curse against book thieves inside the book. Your typical curse (or anathema) simply stated that the thief would be cursed...
Try putting this in the next book you want to protect from theft or piracy:

“If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgement the most sainted martyr himself will be the accuser against him before the face of our Lord Jesus Christ”
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Curse = social DRM.
Equally as effective, too.
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Old 07-22-2015, 09:21 AM   #3
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Curse = social DRM.
Equally as effective, too.
Surely the modern equivalent of the curse is the Copyright Notice, which informs you of what foul retribution may be visited upon you if you use the book in a proscribed manner?
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Surely the modern equivalent of the curse is the Copyright Notice, which informs you of what foul retribution may be visited upon you if you use the book in a proscribed manner?
Ah, but aren't copyright notices a form of social DRM? Watermarks aren't the only form of social DRM...

Curses were thought to offer real protection, just as publishers think DRM does.
And some buyers take watermarks seriously, just as some medievals took curses very seriously.
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Surely the modern equivalent of the curse is the Copyright Notice, which informs you of what foul retribution may be visited upon you if you use the book in a proscribed manner?
The difference is that very few people believe in copyright. Much better to rely on the supernatural.
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Old 07-22-2015, 09:40 AM   #6
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Ah, but aren't copyright notices a form of social DRM? Watermarks aren't the only form of social DRM...

Curses were thought to offer real protection, just as publishers think DRM does.
And some buyers take watermarks seriously, just as some medievals took curses very seriously.
A copyright notice can't be DRM, well certainly not the D bit as it's in dead tree books as well
How about using Analogue Rights System Enforcement instead of DRM
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Curses were thought to offer real protection, just as publishers think DRM does.
The article describes this as "optimism".
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The article describes this as "optimism".
They are polite.
I'd be inclined to go with "magical thinking ". But superstitious also fits.
The technically literate tend to go with "clueless".
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Old 07-22-2015, 11:35 AM   #9
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With each book I upload to the MR library I am tempted to deter potential rip-off artists by putting my favourite curse on the copyright page:

May you spend eternity rollerskating on cobblestones.
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Old 07-22-2015, 12:39 PM   #10
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I thought this thread was going to be about the 10NES DRM chip in the original Nintendo. The first DRM to make everyone's life difficult (it causes the notorious blinking screen problem).
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I thought this thread was going to be about the 10NES DRM chip in the original Nintendo. The first DRM to make everyone's life difficult (it causes the notorious blinking screen problem).
That was the one Atari reverse engineered and let to the court battles that solved nothing but got walled gardens certified as legal, right?
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In 100 years we will find current DRM schemes just as quaint.
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Considering the books were the size of my torso, I think they effectively drm'd themselves...
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With each book I upload to the MR library I am tempted to deter potential rip-off artists by putting my favourite curse on the copyright page:

May you spend eternity rollerskating on cobblestones.
I'm afraid the roller skating community has a counter
http://www.xskating.com/Nordic-Cross...:::49_117.html

Now go and change it to
May a carsick camel moisten your Egg McMuffin.
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In addition to the practical physical protection afforded by chains and book chests, curses offered a more ethereal form of "DRM".
DRM - Demonic Rights Management
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