Second, if you write your books like you wrote that post I sure as #311 don’t even want to see them on the net and will NOT pay to read them!!!!!

Third, you are a selfish, self-centered, greedy person. DRM is nothing but pure EVIL!!! All it does is feed greedy ppl like you and keep poor people from being able to enjoy what the rich can. In addition to that, a free sample is a good thing…a way to advertise and maybe draw more buyers. Ever think of that one??? Obviously not

They already have DRM for digital books. Microsoft Reader supports encrypted .lit files. Adobe has a form of DRM too. They are both easily circumvented.

The Chinese are too busy celebrating New Years right now to be bothered with DRM today. Come back tomorrow.

I have solid reasons:

I’m a prospective author of electronic books. Certainly I don’t want my work freely copied. After all who would buy it if it can obtained for free. My first book will be named “How to make money wrting books for the Internet”.

I plan to put my books as web pages that can be accesed and read by person who pay me for the acess. No one should be able to print what they see on the screen. So I need DRM for my web pages. I need a DMR that will not allow more than one person to view the screen, if that were technically possible.

My books, I plan, will be trademarked, copyrighted and patented. This will facilitate my suing whever breaches my rights. That being one of the windows of opportunity for “How to make money writing books for the Internet”. I learned this from, you know who. Without DRM my scam will not work at all.

I have been told that DRM is only for music and movies, for protecting the content owners of lusy content that cannot stand up without DRM protection. If this were true, is that not discrimination, since I will also be a content owner but will not have the same protection as others have? And none are in the pipeline, because we writers do not have any lobbying muscle, I have been told.

I also have another question. Assuming I am able to get DRM on web pages through my frined Senator (I am a fundraiser of his, and that helps too) how do I shut it off, the DRM, after I put the works in the public domain after a reasonable 5 to 10 years of exploitation of my writings. Surely as works pass to the public domain the DRM must have a method of shutting off. else you really have perpetual copyright, and I don’t want that, since by nature I’m a philantropist.

A final issue: Can the DRM freaks tell the Chineese, who in about five years, will manufacture 99 percent of all electronic/computer equiment worlwide, what DRM has to be built in their equipment? Or will the Chineese tell the DRM freaks where they should go?