Hacker News Reader

HNHacker News

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by cabalamat | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

cabalamat·

> Doctorow mentions "Plays for Sure", which doesn't play any more.

Ironically, if you do want something that really does play for sure, get a pirated copy.

View on HN

If memory serves this has been one of Doctorow's arguments the whole time:

When it's much easier to be a pirate than to behave, you turn everyone into a pirate.

Or physical. I buy CDs for my favourite music, and rip them for digital consumption. Shame there is no way to do this with books.

Just hope none those media companies tries to infect your PC...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

Even physical CDs are not as easy to use as they used to be; this article https://www.databasesandlife.com/playing-a-cd-on-a-computer/ is from 2007: I bought a CD from a shop, a few months later tried to play it on my computer and the DRM had already somehow gone wrong in that short space of time. (At least CDs still work in CD players.)

If the DRM stopped it working then it was not a CD (aka "a defective CD), as a CD - as per the Red Book standard - does not support DRM. You should get your money back.

Right, I mean, I agree, but my point was: It looked like a CD, I bought it from a physical shop selling CDs, it was a modern release from a top 10 pop star at the time. So if you want to listen to music, the algorithm "just buy [what looks like] a CD from a shop, then you won't have to deal with DRM" was not true, at least in my case.

There are some pretty good OCR tools, and it might be interesting to build a fixture with some 80x20 rail and a digital camera, to quickly capture some books to bring on the go

https://linearbookscanner.org/

Reply on news.ycombinator.com