08-15-2007, 03:50 PM | #16 |
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We don't purchase the books with DRM, the publishers think ebooks aren't working. The hardware makers see ebooks are not selling, they stop making the hardware. The ebook publishers stop publishing and we the consumer lose out.
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08-15-2007, 04:41 PM | #17 | |
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As long as you don't mind me smirking and saying "I told you so" when your DRMed eBooks stop working (just like all those poor suckers who paid money at the Google Video Store). |
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08-15-2007, 04:46 PM | #18 | |
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This way the authors and publishers will be encouraged to restrict even more our rights as consumers, come out with even more drm formats and do a Google video act from time to time (abandon their current drm so your ebooks are not readable anymore, and you have to repurchase them if you want to reread them). Happily I think that most law abiding people will do just that since after all that's the law, you want to read drm on the Sony, you gotta have a lrf, you want to read on your Palm you gotta have prc or ereader, you want to read on your Ebk you gotta have imp, you want to read on your 770, oops there is no currently any drm format supported, so that device should go in the trash else be a sign of piracy were you to be seen reading on it |
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08-15-2007, 05:02 PM | #19 | |
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Fictionwise. The new William Gibson novel - Spook Country. $26. Available only in DRMed formats. Amazon.com. Same book. $16 (in hardcover no less!) Now, are you going to tell us, in complete honesty, that intelligent, honest people are going to actually pay $10 more to get less? Because once I've read the paper version, I can re-sell it on Amazon.com and get at least $10 back. You can't do that with the DRMed eBook Amazon.com will guarantee that the paper book will still be readable in 5 years. Fictionwise can't guarantee that any of those DRMed formats will be around in 5 years. Simply put, buying that eBook for $26 from Fictionwise tells the publishers and authors only 1 thing: eBook buyers are morons with too much money. |
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08-15-2007, 05:45 PM | #20 |
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Extending that logic to its conclusion, all early adopters are "morons with too much money."
I choose to view the extra cost as an investment in the developing product area. Of course, I also buy most of my e-books from Baen, which is neither over-priced, nor DRMed. But you're entitled to view it as you like, of course. |
08-15-2007, 06:21 PM | #21 |
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08-15-2007, 11:06 PM | #22 |
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Yup, which is precisely why I buy most of my e-books from them.
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08-15-2007, 11:37 PM | #23 | |
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And don't forget if that's all you order from Amazon, you'll get charged $3.99 for shipping. So the price really is $19.99. BooksOnBoard have this for $19.98. Yes, it's cheaper then Amazon (with shipping by 1 penny). I was just looking at a different book at BooksOnBoard and the MobiPocket edition is 5 cents more then the MS Reader edition. Why is that? |
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08-17-2007, 10:20 PM | #24 |
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As a matter of fact, downloading books might be illegal in the US, but it's not the case in Europe. To prove this point, some WiFi ISP's (particularly in somewhat more rural areas) have a special service to "save" their "to-the-door" bandwidth, which involves you telling them what you want and they'll download it for you. If you ask them to DL a copy of, say, the latest movie, they'll do it and put it on a CD/DVD for you. And there's nothing the government or any agency thereof will do or COULD do against it.
And in case you're wondering, no, my ISP doesn't work that way. I do however know a few people who have such an ISP. On a separate note, I find the whole DRM-ing idea a huge waste of time. Like regions on DVDs or protected mp4's (or the even more stupid "protection" on iPods), it's just another futile attempt which only ends up affecting people who would buy it anyway, while those who wouldn't in the first place will find ways to still get their hands on those books without paying. What I would like to see one day is a sort of eLibrary... a yearly subscription (or a SMALL per-book fee) and ebook-files with a limited lifespan. Last edited by ZeBuddha; 08-17-2007 at 10:30 PM. |
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My understanding is that downloading the content is not illegal. It's the uploading, or "making available" part that is. Quote:
That's why DRM cannot fulfill it's stated purpose of "protecting" the content. The reason that DRM is used is to lock customers into a company by locking their content to a particular device. |
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08-18-2007, 05:55 AM | #27 | |
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DRMed content "disappears" after a while simply because the format it's is no longer supported. Or, as the people who wasted their money on Google Video found out, when the DRM provider goes out of business. |
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It doesn't matter what I think. DRM works - all the facts prove it, regardless of what your or my views might be. If you go for a multi-platform DRM standard you're unlikely not to be able to get a device which supports it.
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08-19-2007, 04:56 AM | #29 | ||
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Fact: All major DRM has been broken. CSS is broke. HD-DVD encryption is broke. WMA "protection" is broken. It's not my "view". It's a fact. The stated purpose of DRM is to "protect" the content. It has failed. The real purpose of DRM is to lock consumers into a particular system. In that, it has some success (for those foolish enough to pay money to rent DRMed content). Ask the customers of Google Video about DRM. They'll tell you that they are against it - now that they got screwed. DRM frustrates customers. Even Microsoft's so-called "PlaysForSure", for example, doesn't play for sure on every device - heck the Zune doesn't support it! The facts show that DRM is a negative for customers. No customer wants a product that does less. Quote:
DRM must be proprietary and closed in order to meet its stated objective. History has shown that properietary/closed formats eventually die. |
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The simple fact that companies which sell DRM-protected eBooks have been a commercial success.
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