Textbooks With EULAs

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?"

Comments

Let me be the first to say....

[fallen1]

this is bullshit. I didn't read TFA and really do not need to. Anytime I see time-limited access to knowledge I am paying a ton of money for (like my textbooks - which I can use as references later) then I call bullshit. Knowledge should always be for the good of all, not for the good of a few. Trying to lock it away under the guise of a DISCOUNT for the student is utter nonsense and a sham. I was hoping our Universities and academia would stand up for the freedoms that most of us hold dear - they want you to pay for the knowledge they impart to you, but they also want it to be free (as in free thinkers). My humble $.02 US.