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Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:53:10 -0400
From: Tice DeYoung <ticed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Princeton to launch DRM'd textbook program MAKING A KILLING
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Dave,
I agree with Ted's grandson. It makes no sense to buy something
elctronicall for marginally less than you can get new and in hard copy
and have it expire shortly thereafter. Furthermore, you can always
re-sell your hard copy textbooks, thereby recovering the
difference. What about notes in the margins, highlighting, doodling,
etc., something most people do? This is one of the silliest uses of
technology I've heard about in a long time and shows the fallacy of
DRM better than many thousand word essays. I still have most of the
textbooks I bought years ago. I'm hoping to go back over them after I
retire and re-learn some of the Physics I've forgotten.
Tice