__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 05 February 2007 17:34 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 05 February 2007 15:13 \__
>>
>>> begin oe_protect.scr
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Rowling: No e-book for Harry Potter VII
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Sorry, e-book fans, whoever you are. You will be able to read the new
>>>>| Harry Potter on paper, listen to it, probably purchase it in Braille.
>>>>| But don't expect to download the text -- at least legally.
>>>>|
>>>>| J.K. Rowling has not allowed the first six Potter stories to be
>>>>| released as e-books and has no plans to change that for the seventh
>>>>| and final work, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," Neil Blair,
>>>>| a lawyer with Rowling's literary agency, told The Associated
>>>>| Press on Sunday.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070204/ap_on_hi_te/harry_potter_e_books
>>>>
>>>> closed-source digital locks fail miserably. Those naive enough to adopt
>>>> them soon enough drop them. Some computer scientists already experiment
>>>> with the idea of watermarking as a replacement for DRM.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would've thought that JK Rowling would be so rich by now that she
>>> wouldn't care, and might even think that ebooking her book could be an
>>> interesting thing to do. Personally, I'd say just put it into text and
>>> be done with it!
>>>
>>> The problem with things like watermarking is that it can only tell you
>>> the original source of something - it cannot tell you how it got to its
>>> present location, nor what monies might have changed hands in the
>>> process.
>>>
>>> I suppose you could argue that not releasing an ebook might reduce the
>>> chances of a back-street illegal publisher publishing counterfeit
>>> copies of the book, but if they were going to do that, I would imagine
>>> that scanning a book would not be so hard anyway.
>>>
>>> We are at a fascinating cross-roads in terms of authorship, ownership,
>>> copyright and so on. The traditional controls and methods are clearly
>>> broken, but it's just not so obvious as to what might replace them.
>>
>> You could OCR some books within minutes in a production-line-like
>> environment (even affordable in the developed world), so the whole
>> struggle with and fight against digitisation and sharing (simple wired
>> communication) is a miserable one. You can make things harder, but how
>> hard can it be? What you can hear and view you can also capture. Some
>> people in /. once joked about banning microspohones and cam recorders. But
>> what about scanners and printers? And what can you do in a world where
>> videos get knocked off GooTube because of some fuzzy background music or a
>> teenage girl who sings some lyrics off her head.
>>
>> This new one shocked me as well:
>>
>> 'Electric Slide' on slippery DMCA slope
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| "You can copyright the choreography for dances and then enforce
>>| the copyright against anyone who publicly performs the dance."
>> `----
>>
>>
http://news.com.com/Electric+Slide+on+slippery+DMCA+slope/2100-1030_3-6156021.html?tag=nefd.top
>> http://tinyurl.com/28kqj5
>>
>
> Haha - this is amazing. This game really needs to end, I think - it's
> no longer sustainable. Where are some philosophers when you need them?
Actually, I'm currently more amused by the thread which Gordon started. Have
a look if you haven't. He has got them busted! They raise the prices as high
as the British market can bear. And their excuse are blowing up in their
faces, with the letters and names going public in COLA and its mirrors.
Accorsing to their GDP pitch, Vista should have been been cheaper over here
across the Atlantic, not twice as expensive. Monopolies screw people. Poor
support, poor security, vanity, and high prices.
--
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