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Textbooks With EULAs

Posted by timothy on from the oh-boy dept.

overshoot writes "We all knew it was coming, didn't we? Now Princeton University and nine others are introducing DRM'd textbooks. For a 33% discount, students get a 5-month node-locked e-book instead of all that glossy paper. Maybe Congress should just get it over with and change the law to allow EULAs on printed works?"

11 of 743 comments (clear)

  1. And for a dollar more by faloi · · Score: 3, Funny

    They can bribe a CS major into unlocking the book forever!

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    1. Re:And for a dollar more by geoffspear · · Score: 3, Funny

      So I'll just use their Sendmail book as the textbook for my calculus course and fail horribly? Sounds useful. Thanks!

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  2. Change computer clock? by pin_gween · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would rolling the clock back on your computer give you instant access again? I know it works with some "free trial" software.

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  3. Re:Five months? by tobybuk · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess this could be considered some sort of student idiot test. 'Hands up who purchased the DRM -Book for our 4 year course?'

  4. Re:Change computer clock? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you aren't already part of the hacker underground, you should really look into making your way in. talent like yours shouldn't be wasted.

  5. Re:Five months? by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 3, Funny
    You forgot one step, which makes the rest of the steps obsolete.

    1. Arrive at uni and buy E-books (profit)
    2. Months in the course starts
    3. Books 'run-out'
    4. Rip E-book
    No step 5.

  6. Re:Sounds like a bad deal to me by hackstraw · · Score: 3, Funny

    My Ethical Issues in Computing class required almost $200 worth of text books.

    The only thing more ironic than that would be spending almost $200 for an Ethical Issues in Business class.

  7. Re:Change computer clock? by saskboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you mean it isn't really 1997, and my free copy of Paint Shop Pro isn't really free?

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  8. By reading this by jlebrech · · Score: 2, Funny

    By reading this EULA you have agreed to pay BooksRUS(TM) the amount of $100 per day.

  9. Re:Change computer clock? by AvitarX · · Score: 2, Funny

    nononononono!!

    the trick was to set your clock forward many years when you installed.

    You have 3012 days left of your 30 day free trial, would you like to register? was the greeting from my terminal program before I connected to a BBS.

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  10. Re:Five months? by dal20402 · · Score: 2, Funny
    2. holds up liquor store
    3. buys text book

    This is not consistent with student behavior anywhere.