Comments on: A simple and effective way to protest DRM http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/07/12/a-simple-and-effective-way-to-protest-drm/ Stay curious! Fri, 10 May 2013 18:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tim McCormack http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/07/12/a-simple-and-effective-way-to-protest-drm/#comment-16693 Tim McCormack Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:56:20 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1182#comment-16693 Yeah, I find it kind of hilarious that people are so up-in-arms about it. What did they expect?

Then I remember that not every consumer is steeped in the anti-DRM rants, and are going to be totally blindsided.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/07/12/a-simple-and-effective-way-to-protest-drm/#comment-16688 Xaprb Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:24:31 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1182#comment-16688 Tim: about putting things into perspective, I’m sure the deluge of critical reviews since the Animal Farm and 1984 incidents has given Amazon a whole new perspective! If you sort reviews by newest-first, it’s practically nothing but an anti-DRM campaign. It seems the masses are beginning to realize what DRM is.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/07/12/a-simple-and-effective-way-to-protest-drm/#comment-16660 Xaprb Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:59:42 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1182#comment-16660 Tim, thanks for commenting. I am curious why that would be. Maybe they simply haven’t been hit as badly by it, too. My publisher sends takedown notices for sites offering free downloads of my book, but after a while it got so popular I quit bothering to send them links; these sites are all fly-by-night anyway. I kind of accept that there’s no way to stop it.

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/07/12/a-simple-and-effective-way-to-protest-drm/#comment-16659 Xaprb Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:56:19 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1182#comment-16659 Mark, thanks for correcting me. On the other hand the lack of PDF support might be an argument for Free Software e-book readers, though I’m not sure how well a PDF would render on the Kindle’s screen.

]]> By: Mark Imbriaco http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/07/12/a-simple-and-effective-way-to-protest-drm/#comment-16658 Mark Imbriaco Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:19:58 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1182#comment-16658 While I agree with your position about DRM, the last example is specious. The Kindle 1 & 2 only support PDF via conversion and re-flowing to fit their screen, not because of anything DRM related but because they don’t natively support the format.

The Kindle DX, which does natively support PDF, accepts any old PDF just fine.

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