Tor ditches DRM-protection from its e-book library (BBC)

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Science fiction publisher Tor UK is dropping digital rights management from its e-books alongside a similar move by its US partners.

DRM is used as an anti-piracy measure, but limits a user's ability to read a title on different devices.

Tor UK, Tor Books and Forge are divisions of Pan Macmillan, which said it viewed the move as an "experiment".

The firm said it was in discussions with e-book store owners to implement the action within three months.

The business said its authors had been pushing for the action for more than a year.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17851822

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1. Baen Ebooks has had that policy as long as they have electronically published.

What is Baen Ebooks' DRM policy?

Baen is committed to remaining free of Digital Rights Management (DRM).

All of Baen's Ebooks available on its Baen Ebookstore are DRM-free and available worldwide. Once you purchase one of our Ebooks, you can download it as many times as you would like, in as many of the seven formats we provide, for as many Ereaders as you'd like.

http://www.baenebooks.com/t-faq.aspx



Baen author Eric Flint hates DRM:

Both the publisher of this magazine (the late Jim Baen) and its editor (Eric Flint) believe that so-called Digital Rights Management (DRM)—by which we mean the whole panoply of ever more restrictive laws concerning digital media, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)—are the following:

First, they represent a growing encroachment on the personal liberties of the American public, as well as those of citizens in other countries in the world;

Second, they add further momentum to what is already a dangerous tendency of governments and the large, powerful corporations which exert undue influence on them to arrogate to themselves the right to make decisions which properly belong to the public;

Third, they tend inevitably to constrict social, economic, technical and scientific progress;

And, fourth, they represent an exercise in mindless stupidity that would shame any self-respecting dinosaur.

http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2011/09/26/salvos-against-big-brother/#more-3264