Comments on: DRM and eBooks: no no no no no http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/03/10/drm-and-ebooks-no-no-no-no-no/ blog of a logophile (not "logos", but "λόγος") Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/03/10/drm-and-ebooks-no-no-no-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-6134 tikitu Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:41:10 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=578#comment-6134 <p>Good spotting. I'm still working on that follow-up...</p> Good spotting. I’m still working on that follow-up…

]]> By: Robin http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/03/10/drm-and-ebooks-no-no-no-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-6133 Robin Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:02:38 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=578#comment-6133 <p>Someone else on the same topic: http://martinpitt.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/lest-we-never-learn/</p> Someone else on the same topic: http://martinpitt.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/lest-we-never-learn/

]]> By: tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/03/10/drm-and-ebooks-no-no-no-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-6129 tikitu Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:40:20 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=578#comment-6129 <p>Ah yes. Suppose I want a pdf that I can read on my iLiad. I need a Windows or Mac machine with Adobe Digital Editions installed on it, so that I can download the DRM-locked file. Then I can transfer that file to my linux machine, where I can run the unlocking scripts. That will give me a pdf (if that's what's locked up inside the Digital Editions crippleware) which I can transfer to the iLiad and read.</p> <p>Too. Much. Effort.</p> Ah yes. Suppose I want a pdf that I can read on my iLiad. I need a Windows or Mac machine with Adobe Digital Editions installed on it, so that I can download the DRM-locked file. Then I can transfer that file to my linux machine, where I can run the unlocking scripts. That will give me a pdf (if that’s what’s locked up inside the Digital Editions crippleware) which I can transfer to the iLiad and read.

Too. Much. Effort.

]]> By: tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/03/10/drm-and-ebooks-no-no-no-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-6128 tikitu Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:51:05 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=578#comment-6128 <p>Yeah, I saw that go by. That might be one of the formats those books turn up in; I lost interest when I realised that I would have to download Adobe's deliberately-crippled reader, which is guaranteed not to work on the iLiad. So it seems if I was less lazy I might be able to buy the books and format-shift them to pdf for myself. Big if...</p> <p>I'm thinking through a few posts that look at these issues more rationally. Having written it down, I'm completely unconvinced by the ebook-to-music DRM analogy. I'm worried that working that out will convince me that DRM <em>is</em> a workable model for ebook publication... which I would really rather not believe, obviously.</p> Yeah, I saw that go by. That might be one of the formats those books turn up in; I lost interest when I realised that I would have to download Adobe’s deliberately-crippled reader, which is guaranteed not to work on the iLiad. So it seems if I was less lazy I might be able to buy the books and format-shift them to pdf for myself. Big if…

I’m thinking through a few posts that look at these issues more rationally. Having written it down, I’m completely unconvinced by the ebook-to-music DRM analogy. I’m worried that working that out will convince me that DRM is a workable model for ebook publication… which I would really rather not believe, obviously.

]]> By: Robin http://www.logophile.org/blog/2009/03/10/drm-and-ebooks-no-no-no-no-no/comment-page-1/#comment-6127 Robin Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:40:45 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=578#comment-6127 <p>This was on slashdot yesterday: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/09/063243&from=rss</p> This was on slashdot yesterday: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/09/063243&from=rss

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