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Book Publishers Abandoning DRM
tmalone writes "The New York Times is reporting that book publishers are beginning to phase out DRM-protected audio books. This month the world's largest publisher, Random House, started offering DRM-free mp3s; Penguin has announced that it will follow suit. Their logic? DRM just doesn't work. 'Publishers, like the music labels and movie studios, stuck to DRM out of fear that pirated copies would diminish revenue. Random House tested the justification for this fear when it introduced the DRM-less concept with eMusic last fall. It encoded those audio books with a digital watermark and monitored online file sharing networks, only to find that pirated copies of its audio books had been made from physical CDs or DRM-encoded digital downloads whose anticopying protections were overridden.'"
Long time lurker (many years), first time poster. I just created a slashdot login, just so I could comment on this story.
Shame on you - you DO realise that you could have had a UID < 1000000, right!?!?
Yes, but in Soviet Russia, I DON'T realize that you shame on me, but do realize that you are UID > 1000000 right you!?!? WTF! FTW! teh f1rst POST!!!
Did I do it right?
Re: your sig-XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Mayor Hardin said (in Asimov's Foundation) "XML is the last refuge of the incompetent!"
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Perhaps you should feel envious of the "hyperlex" who isn't incapacitated by someone reading words to them. :-)
;)
It doesn't matter how well you do or don't read, if you're paying attention to anything but your driving you're a menace. And my writing must be particularly bad or you would have seen that the two paragraphs, one on immersion and one on dangerous driving, are entirely separate.
Or did someone read it to you while you were driving?
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
if you're paying attention to anything but your driving you're a menace.
If you can drive without paying attention to anything else, you're not human. Seriously, listening to the radio is a distraction, daydreaming is a distraction, thinking about where you are ultimately going is a distraction. And anyone who does any of those things is a menace in your view... get a grip. I personally drive around 70,000 miles a year or so and do _so_ many things that are distracting. However, I always know my number one priority when driving - some don't. The closest I've come to accidents in the past few years is when I've been distracted by very little and am lulled into a sense of smug concentration. I try not to let myself get into that state too often - I'd advise you don't too, for your and other's safety.
Every other driver on the road is a menace in my view, and so am I. The question is how much of a menace? I would posit that daydreaming while driving is probably the most dangerous thing you can do because your attention isn't on your driving AT ALL.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest