Thanks Jorgen for dropping by with this link to an article at FutureBook.net reporting on a recent US judgment that blows a hole in the digital rights management (DRM) used by eBook publishers. Even though DRM has been widely abandoned by the music industry since it tended to punish or at least inconvenience honest consumers, publishers entering the eBook Revolution have created several digital locks for their eBooks in an attempt to dictate how consumers use the purchased products.
It seems that this new judgment makes it legal in the US to remove the DRM from an eBook to allow “read aloud function” and other specialized format converters.
Read the full story here.
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