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Lulu Introduces DRM
An anonymous reader writes "Print-on-demand publisher Lulu recently announced that they're offering 'eBooks.' Since they've always offered downloadable books as PDFs, that takes some decoding to figure out what part is new: it turns out that it means now they're handling more formats, they've significantly increased the share they take out of the purchase price ... and for an additional fee, they now offer DRM. I have a few items published through Lulu myself; nothing forces me to buy the DRM, but I'm considering taking my business elsewhere on principle. This isn't what I expected from the people who, when I first signed up with them, were solidly endorsing Creative Commons."
Plus they feed the slaves Soylent Green!
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For the record, I was able to see your point very clearly.
Many people don't seem capable of understanding all but the most simple concepts. These are the very same people who we get slogans like "this is your brain on drugs", "war on terrorism", "fair and balanced" and "sea kittens". This is also the same group of people that these slogans work on. So, when you were trying to make a point about sticking to principles regardless of how large or how small the infraction is, all these people could understand is "DRM equals slavery". Though there may be some philosophical similarities, the direct comparison is ludicrous. So, they simply reject it. *sigh*
On the same note, this will likely be misunderstood as well. (Plus it will make members of this group very angry.)
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In this case, the free market should do fine.
The free market only has problems when:
1) People are allowed to do unethical things
2) Monopolies or oligopolies are created
3) There's a moral hazard
So, does this mean that the government never does unethical things, has no problem with being a monopoly of power, and has no moral hazards?
Like, I guess the question is that, socialists never really answer is, how does having a big government suddenly make people ethical. Seems to me that if you created a big government as the source of all power then every unethical person would immediately seek out a job within it. Indeed, that is exactly what has happened and in fact will always happen.
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