The Ownership Society in the Digital Age.

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4. It might not be so bad.

You can still buy physical books, CDs, etc. This case involving textbooks may
not have very far-reaching implications. People will still sell and buy second-hand like
crazy and no will usually know, care, or be able to enforce the sillier rules.
People still pirate movies and music like crazy, and there are smart ways to go about it.
Amazon sells non-DRMed mp3s, and Apple dropped DRM from most of the itunes catalog.
The new Netflix TOS is creepy, though.

Ebooks bother me, though, so I don't bother with them. My sister is a librarian
who has to keep up with this shit, and she believes most publishers will NEVER
allow non-DRMed ebooks. For whatever reason, they are much more anal
than the music industry which now allows non-DRMed content over Amazon and
itunes. I wonder if that might be because controlling the flow of information
via books is more important to the elite than the relatively innocuous medium
of music.