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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?"

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  1. Re:Well, why not? by AviLazar · · Score: 1, Troll

    In the case of DVDs, I don't think there should be a license of any kind.

    Why offcourse there shouldn't be. They should also make everything open source. That way, a company that spends millions in developing a product can give it away for free - w/o recouping any of their costs. Silly people trying to earn a living.

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  2. Re:Well, why not? by AviLazar · · Score: 0, Troll

    Watching your DvD however you like was never the problem (unless you allowed people into your house and started charging them for it)...putting it on a P2p server, giving copies to your friends, etc is the problem. You *may* not be doing this yourself, but you damn well know that it happens and it happens in masse.

    So get off that high horse before it buckles underneath your bloated weight.

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