Comments on: “Owning” vs. “licensing;” or, will e-bookworms gnaw our entrails? http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/05/owning-vs-licensing-or-will-e-bookworms-gnaw-our-entrails.html a site about everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/05/owning-vs-licensing-or-will-e-bookworms-gnaw-our-entrails.html/comment-page-1#comment-107515 Deron Bauman Fri, 02 May 2008 16:47:16 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=10140#comment-107515 I'm hoping this will decrease over time. What happened with iTunes I think gives a good indication of what hopefully will happen with digital text. In order to get the old schoolers on board you give them all sorts of quacked digital authority. Once the new technology becomes legitimized in the eyes of the corporations who own the content then the DRM seems to loosen somewhat, and hopefully fall away. Here's to hoping. I’m hoping this will decrease over time. What happened with iTunes I think gives a good indication of what hopefully will happen with digital text. In order to get the old schoolers on board you give them all sorts of quacked digital authority. Once the new technology becomes legitimized in the eyes of the corporations who own the content then the DRM seems to loosen somewhat, and hopefully fall away.

Here’s to hoping.

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