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You Don’t Own Your Ebooks
You don’t own your ebooks with DRM. You’re merely licensing the privilege to read them. Some readers overseas have learned this the hard way (yet again) now that Nook is going out of business in the United Kingdom. But don’t worry, they’re working to let you maybe possibly transfer all those books you bought.
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Go To Prison For File Sharing? That’s What Hollywood Wants
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States’ excessive copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while locking the US to the same lengths so it will be harder to…
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Paper Books Will Never Die
After eight years of writing about past visions of the future, I’ve learned to never make predictions of my own. But I’m about to break my own rule because I’m just so damn confident in my prediction: Paper books will never completely disappear.
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Rival Coffee Cup Makers Have Already Cracked Keurig’s DRM
When Keurig announced its new Keurig 2.0, it came with more than just the ability to brew larger 900mL K-Carafe cups. It also came with measures to ensure only Keurig-approved cups could be used. Those measures didn’t work.