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Claude Almansi

Will E-Book Anti-Piracy Technology Hurt Readers? (also on Kindle). Laura Sydell, NPR Ma... - 0 views

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    Amazon's Kindle, the first eBook reader that has really started to catch on with the public, deals almost exclusively with eBooks that have DRM. According to Ian Fried, the vice president of Amazon Kindle, customers don't seem to mind: "We've had very few if any customer responses that the choice we made with DRM was a problem." But DRM could become a problem if the Kindle goes bust - then all those people who bought Kindle eBooks with DRM will have no way to read them because no other device can open the files. Beyond that, not everyone agrees that DRM is a good business strategy. Publishing consultant Michael Shatzkin says it's tough to make the case that file-sharing reduces sales. He cites science fiction writer Cory Doctorow who, he says, "does the best he can to give away as much of his content as possible." And by giving it away, Shatzkin says, Doctorow's sales have skyrocketed.
Claude Almansi

Music lessons | theBookseller.com -Tom Tivnan (about Kindle being proprietary) - 0 views

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    Closely aligned to the DRM issue is that there are a multiplicity of e-book formats, many of which cannot be read on other devices. As with DRM, consumer frustration is bound to arise if readers have to jump through hoops to read legally purchased books. This is perhaps not a problem at the moment, when the bulk of e-reader owners are early adopters, yet it will become more acute when the devices are more widely disseminated among less tech-savvy users. As Kassia Krozser, co-founder of medialoper.com who writes widely on digital entertainment issues, blogs on her publishing site Booksquare.com: "DRM, as implemented now, does not deter piracy. It does deter reading." She later reminds publishers that "your customers (again: the ones who give you money) don't read on one device, on one operating system, in one location. As you move forward with your digital initiatives, think about how real people read books."
Claude Almansi

Doctorow: Digital rights, digital wrongs column index - Guardian - 0 views

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    Cory Doctorow's column on DRM Cory Doctorow is a digital activist, science fiction author and co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing. Each fortnight he writes about copy protection, digital rights management (DRM) and the entertainment industry.
Claude Almansi

Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud - Boing Boing - Cory Docto... - 0 views

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    Time and again, the Author's Guild has shown itself to be the epitome of a venal special interest group, the kind of grasping, foolish posturers that make the public cynically assume that the profession it represents is a racket, not a trade. This is, after all, the same gang of weirdos who opposed the used book trade going online. I think there's plenty not to like about the Kindle -- the DRM, the proprietary file format, both imposed on authors and publishers even if they don't want it -- and about Amazon's real audiobook section, Audible (the DRM -- again, imposed on authors and publishers even if they'd prefer not to use it). But if there's one thing Amazon has demonstrated, it's that it plans on selling several bazillion metric tons of audiobooks. They control something like 90 percent of the market. To accuse them of setting out to destroy it just doesn't pass the giggle-test.
Claude Almansi

Doctorow DRM talk at Olin College, Feb 16 2006 - transcript - 0 views

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    "00:48'12 Well, the proposal is to replace notice-and-take-down with notice-and-termination. We go from a regime where content is removed from a website, to a regime where customers' DSL connection or cable modem connection is severed."
Claude Almansi

anti-virus rants - 0 views

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    devising a framework for thinking about malware and related issues such as viruses, spyware, worms, rootkits, drm, trojans, botnets, keyloggers, droppers, downloaders, rats, adware, spam, stealth, fud, snake oil, and hype...
Claude Almansi

Cory Doctorow's craphound.com » Talk ["0WNED -- HOW HOLLYWOOD PLANS ON MAKING... - 0 views

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    "Here's the audio of my speech last month [Feb 16, 06 at Olin College, a small, elite engineering school outside of Boston. "
Claude Almansi

The American Textbook Accessibility Act | Christopher Dawson July 28 09 | ZDNet.com - 0 views

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    I'm working on a story to actually assess the state of development among big-name textbook publishers and will have more soon on that. For right now, though, it's quite clear that we have a very long ways to go. While a lack of content is a major issue, perhaps a bigger issue is the lack of standards via which the content can be disseminated. Obviously, DRM is a serious problem for textbooks. Copyright aside, though, there are currently around 30 formats in which e-books are published. If you're Pearson, into which basket will you be throwing all of your eggs? Frankly, there is only one that I see that makes a lot of sense right now. EPUB, developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum, is open, XML-based, and can grow as our needs increase. Even this format, though, needs traction with major publishers.
Claude Almansi

Olin Seminar Series: Doctorow's "0WNED -- HOW HOLLYWOOD PLANS ON MAKING THE FUTURE SUBS... - 0 views

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    Your technology, your endeavors, your freedoms are all falling to the onslaught of entertainment-industry- funded initiatives that are destroying the future to preserve its dinosauric business models. Get your pitchforks and torches, burn your Sony rootkit-infected CDs, and take to the streets. They've declared war on you and your way of life -- if you don't defend yourself, who will?
Claude Almansi

L'exception de copie privée n'est pas un droit au soutien d'une action - Muri... - 0 views

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    Dans cette affaire, un particulier avait assigné les producteurs d'un film parce qu'il n'avait pu faire une copie sur VHS du DVD qu'il avait acheté en raison d'un dispositif anti-copie. La Cour d'Appel de Paris, le 4 avril 2007, a rejeté sa prétention au motif que l'exception de copie privée prévue à l'article L122-5 du code de la propriété intellectuelle ne constitue pas un droit, mais bien une exception à l'interdiction de reproduire une œuvre protégée.
Claude Almansi

Speak out against ACTA - Free Software Foundation - 2008-06-20 - 0 views

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    it will have a far broader scope, and in particular, will deal with new tools targeting "Internet distribution and information technology"
Claude Almansi

Wanted: Your Stories of Disability Versus Copyright Law | Electronic Frontier Foundatio... - 0 views

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    In preparation for WIPO's initiative on Exceptions & Limitations to Copyright, the US Copyright Office is currently soliciting comments on the topic of "facilitating access to copyrighted works for the blind or persons with other disabilities". Written comments are due next week (April 21st, 2009), and there will be a public meeting in Washington on May 18th. EFF will be sending our own submission, as will many other IP and disability groups. But if you've worked on software or hardware to overcome your own visual or other disabilities, or co-operated informally (perhaps in an open source project) to provide wider access to content for users with disabilities, or have dealt with a publisher regarding the accessibility of texts, we'd like to encourage you to send the copyright office your own stories - and cc: us at accessibility@eff.org.
Claude Almansi

Non boycottate gli e-book per il Kindle di Amazon - March 03 09 - 0 views

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    Non boycottate gli e-book per il Kindle di Amazon che costano più di $9.99. Boycottate Kindle, il lettore di e-book di Amazon.
Claude Almansi

Kindle e-reader: A Trojan horse for free thought | Emily Walshe, csmonitor.com March 3 09 - 0 views

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    All you really need to know about the dangers of digital commodification you learned in kindergarten.\n\nThink back. Remember swapping your baloney sandwich for Jell-o pudding? Now, imagine handing over your sandwich and getting just a spoon.\n\nThat's one trade you'd never make again.\n\nYet that's just what millions of Americans are doing every day when they read "books" on Kindle, Amazon's e-reading device. In our rush to adopt new technologies, we have too readily surrendered ownership in favor of its twisted sister, access.
Claude Almansi

Amazon invokes DMCA against Kindle e-books from other vendors | Politics and Law - CNET... - 0 views

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    The author of the software in question, titled Kindlepid.py, is listed as Igor Skochinsky, a hardware hacker who performed a remarkable analysis of the Kindle and described in December 2007 how he was able to gain access to the device. It's unclear why Amazon waited so long to respond with a legal threat, and why the company targeted MobileRead.com: Skochinsky's original blog post about Kindlepid.py is dated December 2007, and the copy of the Kindlepid.py software hosted at the Googlepages.com Web-page posting site is still available for download at http://skochinsky.googlepages.com/azw-0.2.zip
Claude Almansi

Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book - O'Reilly, Forbes, Feb 23 09 - 0 views

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    Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story.
Claude Almansi

almansi - CTE (Cinéma tous écrans, Geneva, where I presented the CC licenses... - 2 views

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