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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?"

6 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. 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?'

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.