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Old-Fashioned DRM Protects Harry Potter Book
RMX writes "The Telegraph has a nice article
about the steps that Scholastic is taking to
protect the content of the print version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. They're delivering 10.8 million copies and need to ensure that this content isn't accessable by anyone before midnight. Technology includes high-tech (GPS to monitor delivery trucks progress and check that they did not deviate or stop.), low-tech (steel boxes & locks), social engineering notes (crates stacked up in the warehouses of delivery companies across America are marked: Please Do Not Open Before Midnight), and legal threats (As a final layer of security, booksellers have been forced to sign legal forms acknowledging that if they break the embargo, they will never again be supplied with a book by Scholastic). Think how much cheaper and easier it would be if they just used an E-book s with DRM.
I'm all for Harry Potter protecting his rights; but it seems we keep getting closer and closer to the world described in
Stallman's visionary The Right To Read article."
inanicus librarius!
I have heard from someone who eould know first hand that security at the print facility, secuity is insainly tight. random person searches, tons of cameras, lots of extra guards, it is like Fort Knox.
Well, I certainly hope they thought to use a counter-charm for Alohomora.
-Peter
You know, there are things in the world that don't have to do with OSS/GNU/Stallman. This is one of them.
Alohomora takes care of the boxes. And why use lawyers when you've got the Unforgivable Curses?
Muggles. Peh.
It's Harry Potter, not Satan's bible!
The voice of the next generation. "In this tower, in my mind..." Babble - Tower
Has Steve Jobs taken up a position at Scholastic?
Thought he was the only man to go to such extremes.
-c
Just a little nit to pick but... uhm you see Harry Potter is a fictional character. J. Rawlings in the author of the Harry Potter books and she is protecting her rights. Now as to Richard Stallman being real or a work of visionary fiction, well, that is a moot point.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
"Folks, I'm pleased to announce that a new truckload of Harry Potter Books, chock full of watered-down occult claptrap, is already heading towards Springfield. The driver has been instructed to ignore all stop signs and crosswalks."
This is the funniest anti-Harry Potter drivel I've ever read, thanks for pointing it out.
Some choice quotes:
As a former witch, I can speak with authority when I say that I have examined the works of Rowling and that the Harry Potter books are training manuals for the occult.
The titles of the books should be warning enough to make us realize how satanic and anti-christ these books are. The afore mentioned[sic] title of the first book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", was a real give away.
Well spotted! I never would have known the books were secretly about sorcery without that subtle clue! ...ignoring the fact that the original title is "The Philosopher's Stone".
And perhaps the most wacko part:
In the song "Sound Of Silence" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, we were told of seeds that were left while an entire generation was sleeping, and that the "vision that was planted in my brain still remains."
Well, that clears that up...
"GROW UP."
WHAT?! And reduce the Slashdot population?
that was a reasonable post that made a lot of sense. It also goes against the tone of the discussion here. Expected to get falmed.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Let's see, say a hardcover versions weights two pounds, thats, what, $15,000 or so worth of gold? I am sure you could sell one for more than that right now, today.
Perhaps, but unlike Harry Potter books, gold will always be worth its weight in gold.
First time it's ever been used on anything intended for children, though.
* Not really.
That's it. I'm no longer part of Team Sanity.
Just watch the papers people...
.deviatefromtheabsolute.
Leave it to Timothy, the uncontested king of stupid editors here. Seriously, he's a fucktard.
What a staggeringly brilliant argument.
I'd just turn up at the back of the crowd somewhere with a digital camera taking pictures of all the spoilt brats screaming at their parents at 1am, when they finally decide to give up queuing.
All the more fun if it's pouring with rain then also...