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...

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Publicado en:Author Vol. 124; no. 2; pp. 51 - 53
Autor principal: BLACKMAN, ANDREW
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Publicado: Society of Authors Summer2013
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