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IP: Digital Millin.Copyrt.Act & the Right To Read: Time-limited Textbooks
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:40:09 -0400
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:38:34 -0700 To: nobody () well com From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>The Right To Read: Time Limited Textbooks News | Posted by michael on Monday August 28, @07:46AM from the disaster-unfolding dept. qbasicprogrammer writes: "Vital Source Technologies is now providing time-limited medical textbooks to universities. Password protected books - as predicted in The Right To Read by Richard Stallman - are finally becoming a reality." Starting on Oct. 28, (when the other part of the DMCA comes into effect), you could face a civil lawsuit and criminal penalties of up to five years in jail and a fine of $500,000 for reading someone else's textbook. See the NYU FAQ, the Advogato discussion, or the company crowing about new revenue opportunities. <http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/28/1158221&mode=flat>Wanna bet the prices of these "rental" textbooks won't go down much? --jim
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