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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."
No, Seriously. King of the Dupes and idiotic stories must go. Call this flamebait, call it trolling, call it offtopic, I don't care, just call him fired. Just because it's the weekend, doesn't mean that crap should be the de facto article on Slashdot. It's better to have fewer articles than this crap.
DRM? DIGITAL rights management? for RELEASE DATES? Come on, it's just a release date-- and because this is more popular than most, they have to go through extra steps just to make sure that no super-retailer has an advantage over another super-retailer. These company have billions on the line for an item that gives them a tiny margin. (It will be cheaper at Walmart than amazon with standard shipping, I'm sure.)
Please, though, seriously, revoke timothy's admin status, or at the very least cut him off from the weed.
Go fuck yourself. -- Dick Cheney