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Harry Potter e-books for $1.99 on eBay
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Or perhaps it is? DRM to the rescue! I would've never thought that this would come out of my mouth. Of course I was just kidding... |
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And how do we know that the seller isn't simply turning over the names/credit card numbers of the people who are purchasing it, to JK Rowling's publishers? Its sort of a reverse-phishing scam in action....
The irony in your post wasn't that you found someone selling the Harry Potter ebook, but that you found at least 68 people selling Harry Potter works. Nice. |
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The funniest part was the BUY IT NOW seller. Like there's such a demand for it (and a scarcity, somehow) that you shouldn't waste time trying to win an auction.
It might be what convinces the publishers to finally consider these works as eBooks. Then comes the crushing DRM. It usually takes people some punishing in the wallet before they realize that the people want this digitally. These few are ruining it for the rest of us. Legit people shouldn't be forced into illegally downloading a work (that they've paid for in another format) just to have the portability of taking the content with them anywhere. There has to be an all-in-one DRM that everyone can agree to. Or a universal skeleton key that the copyright holders will allow us end-users to use without fear of reprisal. POL9A |
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I believe Ms. Rowling should be intelligent enough to know that DRM will protect her books if she ever allow it to be released in ebook format. Sure, some may crack the DRM, but as shown it didn't take long for her book to be OCR and posted anyway, so isn't selling legal ebooks a better way than have illicit people sell them for you?
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![]() Yeah, and if those Luddie fools of her publishers can wake themselves up to reality, selling DRM ebooks will at least help them capture part of the demand, although there would still be some lost to illegal scans. Better some than nothing at all! ![]() At the very least the offenders can no longer claim that they did the scans because they couldn't get their hands on an official ebook copy. |
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I know this is entirely unrealistic at the moment... Probably entirely unrealistic ever.
But I do wish there was some DRM scheme that would work exactly like a paper book... It can be transferred and copied everywhere, given to anyone and so on, as long as there was only one copy at any given time... :< Like I said, unrealistic, but, in a perfect world... That would solve the DRM complaints and satiate the corporate world - it would be just like a paper book - anyone can use it, read it, anywhere, but there can only be one in existence... But, yeah... Really unrealistic. :< |
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The technology exists, just not the motivation necessary to deploy it intelligently in electronic books. |
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Hacker, I remember polymorphic encryptions from disassembling viruses, but putting this in context with DRM is new to me. Could you explain in lay terms how this could be put into a DRM-like scheme?
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What should i do now, hic.
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But...content providers don't want e-books to be just like paper books. Clearly, they would be happier with some kind of pay-per-view scheme, but that model doesn't make sense for prose works. So the next best thing - pay per person, no lending, no giving away, no reselling.
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Isn't that what they want with the PAPER books too, only it's technologically not possible after the first "sale"? I do NOT mind paying creative people for their works. I feel it's not only the *right* thing to do, but it helps other people when they get their creative urge on too. But the whole thing of "you can only read it once, unless you pay me AGAIN". Egads, this is just nuts. I'd rather be flayed alive and forced to watch Jar Jar Binks talking all day to Barney about hugging and crap. |
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I read their advertising spiel right up to "psuedorandom XOR" and at that point my babble detector overloaded and I had to stop. Anyone who eschews cryptographic descriptions in favour of random jargon is trying to hide something - and in cryptography, normally they're hiding the weakness of their algorithm. A quick web search suggests that the owner is actively peddling his wares anywhere that crypto novices gather. There's an interesting disassembly of their claims in this forum: http://www.security-forums.com/viewtopic.php?p=69206 On their web pages the author reprints a comment by Schneier "The theory description is so filled with pseudo-cryptography that it's funny to read. Hypotheses are presented as conclusions. Current research is misstated or ignored. The first link is a technical paper with four references, three of them written before 1975. Who needs thirty years of cryptographic research when you have polymorphic cipher theory?" and attempts to argue that since Schneier won't get into a pissing contest with him PMC is obviously perfect. |
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You do realize this thread's been dormant for almost 3 years, doncha, moz?
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Today is the Harry Potter Threads Revival Day
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At least in the U.S., entrapment is a defense in a criminal prosecution, not a civil prosecution, so a reverse scam is a great way to get names. The problem is that it isn't illegal to buy the illegal copy; it is illegal to sell it, which is why the music industry hasn't tried this tack yet. Plus if Rowling's attorneys (or the music industry in the case of music) were posting the "illegal" copies for downloading, the copies would be legal ones because they were authorized by Rowling (or the music folk). Convoluted but true.
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