Monthly Archives: February 2017
The Myth of DRM-Free Music, Revisited
The most widely-read article on this blog these days one that I wrote two years ago called The Myth of DRM-Free Music. So I thought I’d follow up on it. I wrote that piece as a reaction to the popular story — which was coursing around the book publishing industry at the time — that Apple […]
The Failure of Print and E-Book Bundling
How many times has this happened to you: you buy a print book, you start to read it, you go on a trip, you forget to take the book, you find the e-book version online, and you chafe at having to pay full price for another version of something you already have? The music industry […]
Copyright Alert System Shuts Down
Last Friday, the Center for Copyright Information quietly issued a brief statement that the Copyright Alert System (CAS), the American ISP copyright monitoring scheme that started in 2013, is ceasing operations. The CAS was a graduated response scheme of a different sort from the ones that launched in countries like France, South Korea, and New Zealand. […]
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