__/ [ 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
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| "You can copyright the choreography for dances and then enforce
| the copyright against anyone who publicly performs the dance."
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http://news.com.com/Electric+Slide+on+slippery+DMCA+slope/2100-1030_3-6156021.html?tag=nefd.top
http://tinyurl.com/28kqj5
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