Comments on: FTC to hold DRM referendum http://www.teleread.com/drm/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:09:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Toni Hutto http://www.teleread.com/drm/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/comment-page-1/#comment-1004078 Toni Hutto Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:48:07 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2009/01/07/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/#comment-1004078 I find my time well spent waiting for appointments, traveling, etc. by reading on my BlackBerry...and a good deal of the material was purchased from MobiPockets. I am upgrading my BlackBerry to an iPhone next week and lament the horrid state and lack of paying attention to customers' wants. In these economic times, it's not wise to irritate your customers, and if MobiPockets is hiding behind the DRM debate, then shame on them....and shame on a technology that hinders the free trade of books–of intellect! Open this up! I find my time well spent waiting for appointments, traveling, etc. by reading on my BlackBerry…and a good deal of the material was purchased from MobiPockets. I am upgrading my BlackBerry to an iPhone next week and lament the horrid state and lack of paying attention to customers’ wants.

In these economic times, it’s not wise to irritate your customers, and if MobiPockets is hiding behind the DRM debate, then shame on them….and shame on a technology that hinders the free trade of books–of intellect!

Open this up!

]]> By: mores http://www.teleread.com/drm/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/comment-page-1/#comment-999171 mores Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:10:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2009/01/07/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/#comment-999171 DRM is just a lame attempt at protecting something that people who legally buy it would never make available publicly. And those who steal are not hindered by DRM. DRM is just a lame attempt at protecting something that people who legally buy it would never make available publicly.
And those who steal are not hindered by DRM.

]]> By: Court http://www.teleread.com/drm/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/comment-page-1/#comment-999057 Court Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:53:16 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2009/01/07/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/#comment-999057 Following Apple's decision to drop DRM, this is another day, more good news. Thanks for the links, Mike and Chris. I'm going to link to them on my blog. Following Apple’s decision to drop DRM, this is another day, more good news. Thanks for the links, Mike and Chris. I’m going to link to them on my blog.

]]> By: Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/drm/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/comment-page-1/#comment-998986 Chris Meadows Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:51:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2009/01/07/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/#comment-998986 So have I. I was kind of lazy, though; I basically just modified the "What's Wrong With DRM?" section of my <a href="http://www.teleread.com/blog/2008/12/06/drm-a-teleread-primer/" rel="nofollow">TeleRead DRM Primer</a> to include a few non-e-book examples and submitted that. (And added a couple more examples of why DRM is bad, too.) If this works the way other government request-for-comment projects have, then in February we'll get to see everyone's comments and be able to write responses to them. So have I. I was kind of lazy, though; I basically just modified the “What’s Wrong With DRM?” section of my TeleRead DRM Primer to include a few non-e-book examples and submitted that. (And added a couple more examples of why DRM is bad, too.)

If this works the way other government request-for-comment projects have, then in February we’ll get to see everyone’s comments and be able to write responses to them.

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.com/drm/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/comment-page-1/#comment-998978 Mike Cane Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:26:24 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2009/01/07/ftc-to-hold-drm-referendum/#comment-998978 I've submitted my comments to the FTC: http://ebooktest.blogspot.com/2009/01/tell-ftc-you-hate-drm.html I’ve submitted my comments to the FTC:
http://ebooktest.blogspot.com/2009/01/tell-ftc-you-hate-drm.html

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