Lulu Introduces DRM 222
An anonymous reader writes "Print-on-demand publisher Lulu recently announced that they're offering 'eBooks.' Since they've always offered downloadable books as PDFs, that takes some decoding to figure out what part is new: it turns out that it means now they're handling more formats, they've significantly increased the share they take out of the purchase price ... and for an additional fee, they now offer DRM. I have a few items published through Lulu myself; nothing forces me to buy the DRM, but I'm considering taking my business elsewhere on principle. This isn't what I expected from the people who, when I first signed up with them, were solidly endorsing Creative Commons."
Re:Just to start us off with a car analogy... (Score:5, Funny)
DRM is not the devil. It is a tool.
DRM is the Devil's tool.
Re:Non issue (Score:3, Funny)
There's nothing wrong with killing people. (Score:2, Funny)
I think the whole "religious war" charge by the left wing is a bunch of crap. If you look at nearly every war that has ever been, religion at best was used as an excuse but the real reasons were always about money, and about preserving one's way of life, and those are plenty good reasons to fight a war.
I mean, the irony of things is that if there is no God, what's really the moral crime of invading another nation and taking it over. What's the difference between killing a fetus that I can't see or dropping a cluster bomb on a house from 50,000 feet. Either way, I'm just blowing people away without even giving a shit. In fact, what if I enjoy killing fetuses or dropping cluster bombs... what if I'm really good at walking a woman through an abortion so that I can make her feel good about giving me a couple of hundred bucks, or just guiding my aircraft to right on target so that I can waste some fricking muzzies.
Why on earth should I care? When I'm dead, I'm going to be dirt. The end, that's it. So there's no fricking point. As long as someone doesn't kill me, its ok... but I can do whatever I want, so long as I can get away with it.