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  1. Alice in Wonderland by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Adobe's New Ebook DRM Will Leave Existing Users Out In the Cold Come July

    It is unlawful copy, print, lend or give an E-book. And don'e even think of read ing Alice in Wonderland aloud.

  2. Re:Do it the WWW way by Dyolf+Knip · · Score: 1 · on Open eBook Forum Courts Controversy Over Formats
    with no attention to copy prevention

    What? No insanely intrusive and wildly limiting viewing control? Are you some kind of unamerican hacker-anarchist or something?

    Seriously, the idea of not putting their products under every kind of lock and key imaginable is going to be utter anathema to these guys. _Maybe_, if one of them tries an unprotected format on a large scale and is successful the rest will fall into line. But left to their own devices, most will opt for things like "You cannot read this book out loud". Remember, the RIAA has admitted that truly protected files can't be realized, but then from this drew the conclusion that music shouldn't be online at all.

  3. Re:Adobe, catching up to Microsoft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Will Flash Be Taken Off The Shelf?

    Adobe has an estimable record of exposing themselves as stinkers. The most prominent example can be found here, but think also of the Dmitriy Sklyarov case.

  4. Re:Reading aloud "Alice in Wonderland" by egburr · · Score: 1 · on Lawrence Lessig On Hollywood's Attack On Fair Use

    Treat it in the same vein as "This book cannot be lent or given to someone else." and "This book cannot be given to someone else." As the file is not all that hard to transfer, and as these notes are on the "permissions" page, I would say that their meaning of "cannot" is "is not allowed to". See You are forbidden to read this.

    Edward Burr

  5. Re:This book cannot be read aloud by MrGrendel · · Score: 2 · on Lawrence Lessig On Hollywood's Attack On Fair Use
    If you had followed the link to the screenshot provided in the article, you would have seen that the text is not ambiguous. Under the permissions section, it says 'This book cannot be read aloud.' Nothing ambiguous about that. This is in addition to such gems as 'No text selections can be copied from this book to the clipboard,' and 'This book cannot be lent or given to someone else.' Notice that they also acknowledge that the text for the book was taken from Project Gutenburg, which has the mission of providing free (speech and beer) access to books in the public domain or with expired copyrights.

    This same web page has Adobe's reply to complaints about their permissions page.

  6. Reading aloud "Alice in Wonderland" by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 3 · on Lawrence Lessig On Hollywood's Attack On Fair Use

    Lessig mentions the Alice in Wonderland license which states that "This book cannot be read aloud." I believe that this has already been the subject of a slashdot article. But what does that restriction really mean-- does the ebook have the technical ability to read certain "enhanced" texts aloud, or is it an obnoxious loicensing restriction. Lessig is right about one thing. It is unfair and unethical to impose restrictions on the use of a non-copyrighted book-- especially since the text was entered in by Project Gutenberg.