One of the biggest problems for people, like Project Gutenberg, who want to digitize and share our culture’s public domain works, is tracking down and confirming that a work is no longer under copyright. Gutenberg is not alone, towards the end of last month I ran into an opinion piece on teleread arguing that Amazon [...]
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The paper analog
Yesterday’s EFF deeplinks blog picked up our DRM exploit post from March and linked it with a paper from Microsoft security engineers arguing that DRM is doomed to failure. Now might be a good time take another look at just how big this analog hole is, since, however big it is, Amazon’s new 9.7″ screen [...]
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When publishers were gods
In the history of ebooks, all consumers did was complain all publishers did was not listen.
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We Are Not Alone
Sometimes it’s good to be reminded that we’re not the only ones working in this area. From the NYTimes: The Long Now Foundation is developing a software tool to easily convert documents between digital formats, said Stewart Brand, a co-founder of the project.
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