DRM: Read Free or Die!
The debate over digital rights management and ebooks is reaching fever pitch.
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"It seems to me to be perfectly reasonable that publishers want to protect their content the way the game developers and software makers and movie studios do—where DRM is still utilized," he says. "Who are we to say you can't do it?"
McCoy says the conversation of DRM should be more nuanced, too. Not routinely spoken of, he says, are the less black-and-white situations. Do away with applying a form of DRM on copies of ebooks, including those sold to public libraries in order to control the lending period? How about textbooks? What should be done in these situations?
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