Tag: greed
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The BIG DRM (digital rights management) mistake
What are the lessons to learn from DRM? 1. DRM hurts paying customers Customers have paid for the texts/pictures/music/movies they purchased, and they expect to be able to use them as they’d like. You can argue that they’re not really buying the content, they’re just buying licenses for that content, but that argument, while technically…
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LJ becomes the thing you Hate?
LiveJournal recently introduced ads on some pages for free users who wish to ‘upgrade’ their membership. More interestingly, they also added a new restriction to their TOS (XVI 17 b.) banning users from using or providing ad-blocking software. The new TOS also permits them to immediately terminate the account of anyone they catch doing this.…