"There’s no DRM field in the product listing, but it turns out there’s an easy way to tell: just check under product details whether the title has device usage set to unlimited. If so, there’s no DRM."
DRM does not seem to be hurt for streaming media and, weirdly, people don't seem to have such a big problem with this since it's more like "renting" something anyway. A nice commentary that might help us prioritize things in the anti-DRM fight going forward.
Answer: Seems so. People sure don't like DRM.
If publishers OK it, Amazon allows books to borrowed. Here is a site that tries to allow this among groups broader than friends. Let's see how long this lasts.
"If the major publishers switch to selling ebooks without DRM, then they can enable customers to buy books from a variety of outlets and move away from the walled garden of the Kindle store. They see DRM as a defense against piracy, but piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $48 Billion in 2011 (more than the entire global publishing industry) that has expressed its intention to "disrupt" them, and whose chief executive said recently "even well-meaning gatekeepers slow innovation" (where "innovation" is code-speak for "opportunities for me to turn a profit")."
Wait, isn't a patent on DRM which makes it less easy (or more expensive) for others to do a good thing?
Great old article on the failure of DRM.
I now understand the HDCP master key leak. Thanks Ed Felton!
Cute publicity stunt that tries to show pirates what it feels like. I have pretty mixed feelings about the whole thing but I think it is a nice little hack.
``North Korea will have less complications surrounding copyright issues compared to the South, and with the government pushing the project directly, the country seems to have acquired a wealth of e-book content over a relatively short period of time,'' Kim told Yonhap News.
"I want to be free more than I want to be a writer."
