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"Why a supposed German breakthrough in e-book DRM is just as dumb as the old e-book DRM By Cory Doctorow | Jul 06, 2013 " > The idea that copyright owners might convince a judge, or, worse, a > jury that because they found a copy of an e-book on the Pirate Bay > originally sold to me they can then hold me responsible or civilly > liable is almost certainly wrong, as a matter of law. At the very > least, it's a long shot and a stupid legal bet. After all, it's not > illegal to lose your computer. It's not illegal to have it stolen > or hacked. It's not illegal to throw away your computer or your > hard drive. In many places, it's not illegal to give away your > e-books, or to loan them. In some places, it's not illegal to sell > your e-books. > > So at best, this new "breakthrough" DRM scheme will be ineffective. > But worse, what makes anyone think this kind of implicit fear of > reprisal embedded within one's digital library is acceptable, or, > for that matter, preferable to old-school DRM?

By Mathew Ingram Jul. 10, 2013 "Summary: The major publishers say they needed to cut an ebook deal with Apple in order to blunt the force of Amazon's monopoly - but they themselves helped construct that monopoly by insisting on platform-specific DRM."

Un approfondimento sui software protetti che rendono i libri di testo digitali non accessibili. Un invito a tutti i docenti a ribellarsi e non adottare questi testi. Grazie a Claude per la segnalazione.

Disponibile per un'altra esperienza Translator Toolkit - ma stavolta eliminiamo eventuali doppi spazi ;) Lingro lo uso perché avevo messo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejH7tnOVKA - un video tutto vuoto di 1 ora 46 minuti - su YT, perché mi serviva per provare dirottamenti di Amara.org, spiegandolo nella descrizione. Però un cretino di aggregatore russo lo ha pescato quindi sono arrivate visualizzazioni a caterva, e anche commenti poco ameni in russo e altre lingue slave. Allora per poter decidere se erano semplicemente volgari e insultanti o addirittura minacciosi, metto la pagina in lingro. Tanto, la sintassi è sempre la stessa pressapoco nelle lingue indo-europee. (Alla fine poi, ho aggiunto annotazioni sul video per promuoverne altri che mi piacevano: uè se mi devo far insultare, tanto vale che serva a qualcosa).

Ho provato ora: traduce una parola alla volta con più eventuali accezioni. Ci vuole una pazienza! ...però evita i discorsi a pera dei traduttori automatici. Ancora grazie, Claude.

Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the E-books Press Conference Washington, D.C. ~ Wednesday, April 11, 2012 "Earlier today, we filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, against Apple and five different book publishers - Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster. In response to our allegations, three of these publishers - Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster - agreed to a proposed settlement. If approved by the court, this settlement would resolve the Department's antitrust concerns with these companies, and would require them to grant retailers - such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble - the freedom to reduce the prices of their e-book titles. The settlement also requires the companies to terminate their anticompetitive most-favored-nation agreements with Apple and other e-books retailers. In addition, the companies will be prohibited for two years from placing constraints on retailers' ability to offer discounts to consumers. They will also be prohibited from conspiring or sharing competitively sensitive information with their competitors for five years. And each is required to implement a strong antitrust compliance program. These steps are appropriate - and essential in ensuring a competitive marketplace. Beginning in the summer of 2009, we allege that executives at the highest levels of the companies included in today's lawsuit - concerned that e-book sellers had reduced prices - worked together to eliminate competition among stores selling e-books, ultimately increasing prices for consumers. As a result of this alleged conspiracy, we believe that consumers paid millions of dollars more for some of the most popular titles. During regular, near-quarterly meetings, we allege that publishing company executives discussed confidential business and competitive matters - including Amazon's e-book retailing practices - as part of a conspiracy

"if the world's governments continue to insist that wiretapping capacity must be built into every computer; if the state of California continues to insist that cell phones have kill switches allowing remote instructions to be executed on your phone that you can't countermand or even know about; if the entertainment industry continues to insist that the general-purpose computer must be neutered so you can't use it to watch TV the wrong way; if the World Wide Web Consortium continues to infect the core standards of the web itself to allow remote control over your computer against your wishes-then we are in deep, deep trouble. The Internet isn't just the world's most perfect video-on-demand service. It's not simply a better way to get pornography. It's not merely a tool for planning terrorist attacks. Those are only use cases for the net; what the net is, is the nervous system of the 21st century. It's time we started acting like it."