Tower of BabelDRM complaints here, from Associated Content contributor Julio Angel Ortiz, who also calls for e-book standards. More and more people are catching on to the evils of the Tower of eBabel. We need to raze the Tower for real, not let the usual suspects use proprietary DRM and other gotchas to keep it standing. Attention, Sony! Start phasing out your ephemeral BBeB format and rely on e-book standards if you really want your $350 reader to succeed. You already know how much readers love the idea of yet another eBabler.

Related:
Teens Don’t Think CD Copying is a Crime, from Slashdot. And guess what? Inconvenient copy-protection is no small reason why CD piracy is so widely accepted. E-book publishers would do well to avoid similar mistakes, by not using DRM or at least making certain it’s reader-friendly. Format standards, another way for legitimately obtained books to be easier to use, will also help.

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  1. So, with that attitude, are there two possibilities.

    1) Their customers are all thieves, which means they are going to be screwed, as those crims like to get stuff for nothing.

    2) Their customers realise they are being called thieves, and are mightily insulted. This leads some of them to do just that, some to not buy books ever again from those publishers, etc. This also leaves them screwed in the ‘hastening of a declining industry’ sense.

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