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Penguin Yanking Kindle Books From Libraries

Posted by Unknown on from the every-time-you-share-jesus-kills-a-kitten dept.

New submitter moniker writes "Penguin Group is removing Kindle ebooks from libraries using Overdrive citing 'security concerns' as a weak excuse, while most likely taking a shot at Amazon. One more example of DRM being about protecting business models, not content."

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  1. Re:"Content" is a business model. by sqlrob · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, it's not.

    The content gives you something to sell, exactly what you do with it is the business model.

  2. Re:If Everything was "security"? by SimonTheSoundMan · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's easy to strip the DRM out of the files.

    Also, my local library supply audio books that you can download from home straight to your PC/Mac using Ebsco. You can take out the audio books for as short as one day. The software downloads the MP3 files to a hidden directory, I found they have no DRM attached. Copy paste to a new directory, you have the audiobook forever.

  3. Re:If Everything was "security"? by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is also known as stealing.

    Bullshit. The files were returned in the exact same condition as he received them.

    Now copyright violations OTOH...

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  4. Re:If Everything was "security"? by gweihir · · Score: 4, Informative

    Copyright infringement is not stealing. Look it up sometime.

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  5. Re:If Everything was "security"? by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is also known as stealing

    Only by people who have never looked up the definitions of "stealing" and "copying."

    And congratulations, you are fucking over libraries and everyone else (future versions will have ever more draconian DRM or simply not be available in libraries) for your own greed.

    DRM is always doomed to fail. It attempts to solve an unsolvable security engineering problem (the secure device in an insecure environment) and the security only needs to be broken once for the whole system to fall apart. For some reason, copyright-based industries have failed to grasp this fundamental truth, and their lobbyists have convinced governments to prop up their bad security systems with undemocratic laws and censorship. They have even convinced the public school system to spread their greed-driven propaganda to young children.

    Yet you defend these people.

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