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."

Comments

So....

[tjstork]

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.