User-generated content has bloomed with the advent of digital, and more consumer choice is a death knell to the traditional monopoly.Ģ. Don't let them exert their power against the populace through backdoor trade deals.Įntrepreneurs: Create new content delivery and streaming platforms that force the transition to digital-rightsholders like to claim that piracy is responsible for their failed economics, though the truth is that they had an artificial market advantage of scarcity. Discriminate against giving your business to companies that don't support open, sane protocols. (one example)Īrtists: Use self-publishing platforms (gumroad, bandcamp, even spotify.) and self-incorporate. As an individual: if you understand the methods, contribute to open-source tools that allow individuals to exercise their rights. If you are a programmer, security researcher, artist, or entrepreneur you can make a difference.ġ. I'm afraid you're misinformed, but for socially-conscious individuals (ie, they don't support a scorched-earth, ends-justify-the-means policy to get that $250,000* from your nephew for torrenting Inside Out) I'm including my comment below. Plus, why do some people want to keep and share with the world ebooks they had for free from a public library: they totally crush the only solution which makes litterature available to everyone: if this spreads, libraries will not be able to get ebooks from major publishers anymore. LCP which is moving in the right direction IMO: being able to give an ebook to a friend by simply giving the password is great. The original is still open, everybody can use it, Amazon, Adobe, B&N, Kobo don't bother, so it can be used, updated without bits of Readium LCP. What do companies adopting Readium LCP offer? all of the above. What does kindle and other proprietary DRMs offer? none of it. Why do we use DeDRM tools or equivalent? to be able to move a file from one ereader to another, from another brand to feel that we 'own' ebooks we have 'bought' to be sure that we keep ebooks in case the booksellers goes off-market to be able to give and ebook we bought to a few friends.

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