{"id":43160,"date":"2014-06-20T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/hoist-on-ones-own-drm-petard.html"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:25:21","slug":"hoist-on-ones-own-drm-petard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/hoist-on-ones-own-drm-petard.html","title":{"rendered":"Hoist on one's own DRM petard"},"content":{"rendered":"
DRM is Digital Rights Management, i.e., the stuff that (unsuccessfully) keeps pirates from making illegal copies of digital books, music, games, etc. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Generrally speaking, DRM sucks. \u00a0Usually it just sucks for the consumer. \u00a0Occasionally it sucks for the folks who insist upon using it.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

DRM Sucks: Big-Five Publishing Edition<\/p>\n

"Hachette insisted that Amazon sell its books with "Digital Rights Management" that only Amazon is allowed to remove, and now Hachette can't <\/i>afford<\/i><\/b> to pull its books from Amazon, because its customers can only read their books with Amazon's technology."<\/i><\/p>\n

Yep. DRM sucks. Ultimately, and eventually, it sucks for everyone, including the people who asked for it in the first place.<\/p>\n

Good thing all the other big publishers didn't ask for DRM on their Amazon ebooks. Oh wait… #wp<\/a><\/p>\n

By the way:<\/b> If you hate DRM and want a good audiobook to listen to, I have just<\/i> the thing… http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/category\/podcasts\/hidden-things\/<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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How Hachette made the rope that Amazon is hanging it with<\/a><\/p>\n

In my latest Guardian column, “How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage,” I discuss the petard that the French publishing giant Hachette is being hoisted upon by Amazon.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DRM is Digital Rights Management, i.e., the stuff that (unsuccessfully) keeps pirates from making illegal copies of digital books, music, games, etc. \u00a0 Generrally speaking, DRM sucks. \u00a0Usually it just sucks for the consumer. \u00a0Occasionally it sucks for the folks who insist upon using it. Reshared post from +Doyce Testerman DRM Sucks: Big-Five Publishing Edition … Continue reading “Hoist on one's own DRM petard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,79],"tags":[401],"class_list":["post-43160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-media-intellectual-property","tag-wp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39311,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/on-hidden-things-and-restricted-things.html","url_meta":{"origin":43160,"position":0},"title":"On Hidden Things and Restricted Things","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Oct-13 10:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A nice, short essay on DRM and why it sucks.And, also, a plug for +Doyce Testerman's \u00a0audiobook Kickstarter (http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/doycet\/hidden-things-audiobook). \u00a0The original novel is a splendid delight, so if you're at all audiobooky, I'd definitely jump on this. 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