Thursday, May 19, 2016

To Hell With Fair Use: IBM Patents a Printer Which Doesn’t Belong to Its Buyer

DRM has long enabled a file's creator to limit how it is used. We've seen this most often in PDFs, but also office docs and even ebooks, where for example Adobe has a print/readaloud tag in Epub ebooks which can be disabled the publisher. Now IBM has taken this old idea and applied it to printers....

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from The Digital Reader

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