[IP] more on Princeton to launch DRM'd textbook program MAKING A KILLING djf

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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> From: Tice DeYoung <ticed@bellatlantic.net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Princeton to launch DRM'd textbook program MAKING A KILLING
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> Dave,
>
>    I agree with Ted's grandson.  It makes no sense to buy something 
> elctronicall for marginally less than you can get new and in hard copy 
> and have it expire shortly thereafter.  Furthermore, you can always 
> re-sell your hard copy textbooks, thereby recovering the 
> difference.  What about notes in the margins, highlighting, doodling, 
> etc., something most people do?  This is one of the silliest uses of 
> technology I've heard about in a long time and shows the fallacy of 
> DRM  better than many thousand word essays.  I still have most of the 
> textbooks I bought years ago.  I'm hoping to go back over them after I 
> retire and re-learn some of the Physics I've forgotten.
>
> Tice

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