Digital Rights Management and E-books - light reading

["Eva McDonald" <eva.mcdonald@bibliocentre.ca>]

Some amusing reading for a Friday that may be of interest to this
listserv...

1.  This is a speech that EFF guy Cory Doctorow gave at Microsoft about
why digital rights management systems do not work, are bad for society,
business and creators:  http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt (you've got to
love a guy who starts his talk to the digital rights folks at Microsoft by
saying, "Greetings fellow pirates!" )

2.  "Ebooks: Neither e- nor books.  Discuss."
O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/view/e_sess/4693

- Doctorow published his books under the Creative Commons license and
reported the same finding as the National Academies Press (previous
posting at
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0109/msg00020.html):
"Making our material easily and freely available helps us sell books."

Happy weekend!
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