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Re: Princeton University Goes Digital - The Wrong Way

jmeissen@aracnet.com
8 Aug 2005 17:53:59 GMT

In article <telecom24.358.5@telecom-digest.org>, Monty Solomon
<monty@roscom.com> wrote:

> http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4658
>
....
> Alas, the e-books are encoded in DRM which pretty much spoils the
> potential success of this pilot project:

> * Textbook is locked to the computer where you downloaded it from;
> * Copying and burning to CD is prohibited;
> * Printing is limited to small passages;
> * Unless otherwise stated, textbook activation expires after
> 5 months (*gasp*);
> * Activated textbooks are not returnable;
> * Buyback is not possible.

Do they use some proprietary Adobe DRM mechanism that makes them
incompatible with non-Adobe PDF readers? Specifically, what about
Linux platforms, where Windows-specific DRM measures don't usually
work?

John Meissen jmeissen@aracnet.com

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