How Copyright Laws Keep E-Books Locked Up

spiegel.de

Greed/pride -> copyright -> DRM/uneven limitations -> unhappiness for the work's largest audience.

HDD space is not as scarce a resource as ink, paper, etc.

Copying of digital information is not as costly as the copying of physical information.

What's the "news"? Did I miss something? People are kind of beating a dead horse with the whole "DRM sucks, piracy is cool, free software is kick ass" thing.

Agree that it's not really news; Stallman predicted this 17 years ago:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

I feel like this is a sign that books are on the verge of extinction.

Its traditional publishers that are on the verge of extinction, Amazon is putting them out of business by providing a better publishing platform

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