{"id":4766,"date":"2010-02-17T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2010-02-17T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:46:33","slug":"apple-ipad-will-use-drm-ahoy-ebook-pirates-come-and-get-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPad Will Use DRM&#8230; Ahoy eBook Pirates! Come and get &#8217;em!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> sent us a <strong><a title=\"Apple iPad's Locked eBooks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/189419\/report_apples_ipad_ebook_store_to_use_drm.html\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to a story at <strong>PCWorld<\/strong> that reports iPad will adopt a DRM lock on the ePub format eBooks it will sell at its iBook store. That&#8217;s part of the stupid deal they inked with some large and greedy publishers (Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon &#038; Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette) that wanted to\u00c2\u00a0raise the price of their eBook titles. This despite Apple iTune&#8217;s troubled history with over-priced and locked music.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if this is true, they&#8217;ve just created the demand for low-priced,\u00c2\u00a0pirated and unlocked eBooks. Can anyone say &#8220;<strong><a title=\"Napster Born of Music Publishing Greed\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Napster\" target=\"_self\">Napster<\/a><\/strong>?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorgen sent us a link to a story at PCWorld that reports iPad will adopt a DRM lock on the ePub format eBooks it will sell at its iBook store. That&#8217;s part of the stupid deal they inked with some large and greedy publishers (Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon &#038; Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette) that wanted to\u00c2\u00a0raise &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4766\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}