Textbooks With EULAs 743
overshoot writes "We all knew it was coming, didn't we? Now Princeton University and nine others are introducing DRM'd textbooks. For a 33% discount, students get a 5-month node-locked e-book instead of all that glossy paper. Maybe Congress should just get it over with and change the law to allow EULAs on printed works?"
And for a dollar more (Score:3, Funny)
Change computer clock? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Five months? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Change computer clock? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Five months? (Score:4, Funny)
1. Arrive at uni and buy E-books (profit)
2. Months in the course starts
3. Books 'run-out'
4. Rip E-book
No step 5.
Re:And for a dollar more (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a bad deal to me (Score:4, Funny)
The only thing more ironic than that would be spending almost $200 for an Ethical Issues in Business class.
Re:Change computer clock? (Score:2, Funny)
By reading this (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Change computer clock? (Score:2, Funny)
the trick was to set your clock forward many years when you installed.
You have 3012 days left of your 30 day free trial, would you like to register? was the greeting from my terminal program before I connected to a BBS.
Re:Five months? (Score:2, Funny)
3. buys text book
This is not consistent with student behavior anywhere.