"Cory Doctorow - Someone Comes to Town - Someone Leaves Town" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dodd Christina)

A large chunk of тАЬebook piracyтАЭ (downloading unauthorized ebooks from the net) is undertaken by
people in the developing world, where the per-capita GDP can be less than a dollar a day. These people
donтАЩt represent any kind of commercial market for my books. No one inBurundi is going to pay a
monthтАЩs wages for a copy of this book.A Ukranian film of this book isnтАЩt going to compete with
box-office receipts in theUkraine for aHollywood version, if one emerges. No one imports commercial
editions of my books into most developing nations, and if they did.theyтАЩd be priced out of the local
market.

So IтАЩve applied anew, and very cool kind of Creative Commons license to this book: theCreative
Commons Developing Nations License . What that means is that if you live in a country thatтАЩs not on the
World BankтАЩslist of High-Income Countries , you get to do practically anything you want with this book.

While residents of the rich world are limited to making noncommercial copies of this book, residents of
the developing world can do much more. Want to make a commercial edition of this book? Be my guest.
A film?Sure thing.A translation into the local language?But of course.

The sole restriction is that youmay not export your work with my book beyond the developing world .
Your Ukranian film, Guyanese print edition, or Ghanian translation can be freely exported within the
developing world, but canтАЩt be sent back to the rich world, where my paying customers are.

ItтАЩs an honor to have the opportunity to help people who are living under circumstances that make mine
seem like the lap of luxury. IтАЩm especially hopeful that this will, in some small way, help developing
nations bootstrap themselves into a better economic situation.


DRM

The worst technology idea since the electrified nipple-clamp is тАЬDigital Rights Management,тАЭ a suite of
voodoo products that are supposed to control what you do with information after you lawfully acquire it.
When you buy a DVD abroad and canтАЩt watch it at home because itтАЩs from the wrong тАЬregion,тАЭ thatтАЩs
DRM. When you buy a CD and it wonтАЩt rip on your computer, thatтАЩs DRM. When you buy an iTune
and you canтАЩt loan it to a friend, thatтАЩs DRM.

DRM doesnтАЩt work. Every file ever released with DRM locks on it is currently available for free
download on the Internet. You donтАЩt need any special skills to break DRM these days: you just have to
know how to search Google for the name of the work youтАЩre seeking.

No customer wants DRM. No one woke up this morning and said, тАЬDamn, I wish there was a way to
do less with my books, movies and music.тАЭ

DRM canтАЩt control copying, but it can control competition. Apple can threaten to sueReal for making
Realmedia players for the iPod on the grounds that Real had to break Apple DRM to accomplish this.
The cartel that runs licensing for DVDs can block every new feature in DVDs in order to preserve its
cushy business model (why is it that all you can do with a DVD you bought ten years ago is watch it,
exactly what you could do with it thenтАФwhen you can take a CD you bought a decade ago and turn it
into a ringtone, an MP3, karaoke, a mashup, or a file that you send to a friend?).

DRM is used to silence and even jail researchers who expose its flaws, thanks to laws like the US
DMCA andEurope тАЩs EUCD.