Piracy has become a major problem for the content publishers. Because of it, music and movie publishers added DRM (Digital Rights Management) to protect their copyrighted contents. However, pirates have begun to pirate e-books and other digital contents thanks to the DRM technology. As a GNU/Linux user and my belief in copyleft, I’m against using contents on the internet that are DRM-protected. I believe that the consumer should own the ownership of the content once they purchased it from the content owner.
Read more:
Digital piracy hits the e-book industry – CNN
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