A courtyard of bamboo and late-night snow
a lone lantern a book on the table
if I hadn’t encountered the teaching of no effort
how else could I have gained this life of leisure
Wei Yingwu 韋應物
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2·10 days agoI’d like to clarify that removing DRM does lie in a grey zone in many countries, including in the US due to some court rulings. In some countries the right to make a backup of your e-book might have priority over copyright law for example.
1·12 days agoGreat comment, agree!
1·13 days agoI’d say a fair idea is to host your own personal website with your resume, if you’re capable and/or want to learn. There are often examples you can base your portfolio on.
One of the worlds greatest wonders
5·14 days agoCrazy amount of upvotes though? Surprised to see that so many like Lemmy on reddit!
Why is DRM necessary? In the EU, many countries mostly just use digital watermarking for their native language e-books bought from stores (e.g. Germany and the Nordics). We got the music industry to get rid of DRM on music files. I’d argue watermarking is enough to discourage people, and no matter the DRM or no DRM all books still find their way to shadow libraries. I agree, as Terence also argues, that this is a very non-intrusive DRM, but which still has many problems of… just being a DRM solution for one. The licensing fee to allow support for LCP is also absurd, and ranges from a few thousand USD to tens of thousands. There are therefore no FOSS apps capable of supporting the DRM. The solution in itself is not fully FOSS either.
And aren’t you annoyed by their arrogant tone and how they try to blame, guilt, and threaten their way forward?
I’m not in the US. But from my research, it seems to not be as clear-cut as you state even in the US (e.g, https://gizmodo.com/its-perfectly-legal-to-tell-people-how-to-remove-drm-1670223538). The DMCA takedown issued to the NoDRM team was for including copyrighted LCP code from my understanding.
Either way, for this specific case, they had no legal grounds at all to threaten the creator.
It’s a common misconception that stripping DRM is illegal. If you own the books, it’s legal in most countries to strip the DRM. This method doesn’t even touch the DRM, he just extracts the content after being delivered it. Maybe it’s semantics, but it’s not the same as using the DeDRM plugin for example.
1·21 days agoCool. I’m currently using MacroFactor. How does this compare?
Interesting how this is the new normal. I still much prefer a desktop computer.
1·24 days agoTrust me, I’m trying! But still, it doesn’t cover everything.
I run 2x 1440p monitors at 165hz and 144hz fine