Credit Where Credit Is Due Dept: I bought some ebooks from Barnes & Noble yesterday, and I’m reading them on my Pocket PC! Yep, you read that right. Seems that not all of the ebooks on BN.com use the DRM5 encryption that renders them unusable on existing Pocket PCs. Reader actually supports three types of [...]
Killing the Goose Dept: I saw an interesting article on ZDNet today about the copy protection being built into Microsoft software. Microsoft is now enforcing the edict that you can only install one copy of office on a maximum of two machines (generally a PC and a laptop). If you need more copies you have [...]
They Screw You With DRM Dept:
To quote Leo Goetz in the “Lethal Weapon” movies, they screw you with DRM.
Latest installment, Audible.com. Now don’t get me wrong. On the whole, I’m a pretty happy Audible customer. I’ve found it very easy to purchase and download content from them, and their frequent listener program is a great [...]