Pirates v. prisoners.
The article centers on the Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection which is said to prevent digital books from being copied and illegally distributed. Due to free applications which unlock DRMs, ebooks are hardly protected and authors' revenues are jeopardized. To make reading ebooks easier on bu...
| Publicado en: | Author Vol. 124; no. 2; pp. 51 - 53 |
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Society of Authors
Summer2013
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| Sumario: | The article centers on the Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection which is said to prevent digital books from being copied and illegally distributed. Due to free applications which unlock DRMs, ebooks are hardly protected and authors' revenues are jeopardized. To make reading ebooks easier on buyers, DRMs are no longer exclusive to certain reading devices and public libraries are required to use DRM software to prevent lent ebooks from being reproduced. |
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