Option DRM payante chez Lulu.com

[Benoit Sibaud <bsibaud AT april.org>]

Bonjour,

« Lulu.com est un éditeur de livres, calendriers, vidéos, logiciels,
musiques et sons, en ligne, spécialisé dans l'autopublication. (...)
L'entreprise a été fondée en 2002 par Bob Young, ancien CEO de
l'entreprise Red Hat. » (source http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu.com )

Lulu.com vient d'ajouter une option DRM pour les livres numériques :
pour 0,99$, on peut verrouiller et restreindre les lecteurs (option
décrite comme « Protection contre la copie (DRM) »
http://www.lulu.com/publish/ebooks/ )

Source :
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/books/lulu-introduces-drm.php
http://lulublog.com/2009/11/03/new-lulu-ebooks-are-here/
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0552209/Lulu-Introduces-DRM
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/5088

Commentaires :
« The main reason I promoted Lulu myself in the past is because I
thought it would be a publisher that would have rejected DRM given it
was founded by Bob Young. This to me suggests the company has lost its
way, and is no longer relevant as it can be lumped in with all the other
outgoing publishers. »

« Lulu is not requiring me to use DRM, but they're offering it to me and
trying to sell it to me as a desirable thing. That's not the behaviour
of the kind of outfit I thought I was signing with, when I signed with
Lulu a few years ago, when they were endorsing Creative Commons. Right
now I'm leaning towards taking all my print-on-demand business
elsewhere. »

-- 
Benoît Sibaud