09-26-2007, 08:29 AM | #1 |
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Amazon's new DRM-free MP3 store
Check out this article:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...sic-store.html While not technically about e-books, it has a lot of interesting things (not that we do not know them by and large) about e-content. For example: "There are a few restrictions. One of the biggest is that there's no redownloading of tracks; you'd better make a backup, because if you lose a song, you'll have to purchase it again to get another copy. Such a policy has an obvious analogue to Amazon's CD sales. If you purchase a Tim McGraw CD and your NPR-loving uncle "accidentally" cracks the disk in two, you are out of luck; Amazon won't send you another copy. In this sense, then, music downloads are treated like physical property. But they are not property. In fact, what you have purchased is only a "non-exclusive, non-transferable license" to each song. Because you have not actually purchased something physical, Amazon's terms of service explicitly forbid both re-selling and lending. With a CD, of course, you can do both quite legally. Digital downloads can be cheaper and more convenient, but there's no legal way to extract value from them when your tastes in music change. Caveat emptor." |
09-26-2007, 10:36 AM | #2 |
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Thanks for that. Well worth checking out.
On the subject of interesting articles in arstechnica check out this one on the next generation of Intel chicps for ultramobiles [EDIT: oh and here's another one - this time about the AACS content protection system for High Definition Video] Last edited by andym; 09-26-2007 at 10:54 AM. |
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09-26-2007, 11:24 AM | #3 |
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Let's hope they are going to do this in the future with ebooks as well, DRM-free I mean...
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The "Caveat Emptor" bit was cute... Anyway, if this is how Amazon plans to sell music, we can only hope that they will follow the same methods when selling e-books. |
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09-26-2007, 12:40 PM | #6 |
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I'm pretty sure they can't limit your resale abilities. Just because it is electronic does not mean they can overturn the right of first sale, althought it is legally murky as the linked wikipedia article shows.
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09-26-2007, 04:17 PM | #8 | |
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I think everyone's just going to have to get used to the fact that digital files changes the old resale equation, whether we like it or not. |
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09-26-2007, 04:22 PM | #9 | |
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I can live with that as long as prices are reasonable and I can be sure that I will be able to read my e-books indefinitely on any device I want (with some care from my part of course not to lose the file), ... Usually the resale value of most books is negligible anyway. |
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09-26-2007, 08:55 PM | #10 |
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I have to admit, most of the reason I've ever bothered trying to resell books was because I couldn't store them and couldn't stand the idea of throwing them away, not because they're worth much. That argument doesn't really hold with digital files. Still, I think the right of first sale is not so easily tossed aside. And I still think most vendors need to come down on prices (e.g. to where Baen is).
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09-27-2007, 06:25 AM | #11 |
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Well, I like it.
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09-28-2007, 01:49 PM | #12 | |
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A. The seller creates and sells multiple copies of their single product; or B. The seller tries to pass themselves off as the original author of someone else's work. This is because it does not unduly compromise the original author's market, in the eyes of the law. As long as these two caveats are not broken, I don't see why even e-books cannot become a secondary market product in time. |
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