"We were planning to now focus on new accessibility features on our open-source Thorium Reader, better access to annotations for blind users and an advanced reading mode for dyslexic people. Too bad; disturbances around LCP will force us to focus on a new round of security measures, ensuring the technology stays useful for ebook lending (stop reading after some time) and as a protection against oversharing."

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[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Why is DRM necessary? In the EU, many countries mostly just use digital watermarking for their native language e-books bought from stores (e.g. Germany and the Nordics). We got the music industry to get rid of DRM on music files. I'd argue watermarking is enough to discourage people, and no matter the DRM or no DRM all books still find their way to shadow libraries. I agree, as Terence also argues, that this is a very non-intrusive DRM, but which still has many problems of.. just being a DRM solution for one. The licensing fee to allow support for LCP is also absurd, and ranges from a few thousand USD to tens of thousands. There are therefore no FOSS apps capable of supporting the DRM, like KOReader or Librera. The solution in itself is not fully FOSS either.

And aren't you annoyed by their arrogant tone and how they try to blame, guilt, and threaten their way forward?

[–] notanapple@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah now I agree with you. I didnt understand the full impact the first time around.

(thanks for taking your time to actually explain it to all)

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for changing your mind :)

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

DRM isn't necessary, but they will do DRM if they can. They can, so someone gave them not so bad DRM so they wouldn't use worse DRM. The USA could make DRM illegal, but it did the opposite.