Comment Are you sure about electronic ? (Score 1) 880
Several years ago I read a story in a jornal about a publisher selling a CD-ROM book for medical students. It was some critical book that the students would find important to hang onto after they left school (anatomy ?).
Evidently the CD's were encrypted with time senstive keys. Medical students could buy access to the data for the time that they were in school, but after they completed school they had to continue to pay several hundered dollar's a year to the publisher to be able to continue to access the book's contents (it did include access to updates too).
I never heard anymore about it. Hopefully it didn't do very well. It was a bad precedent a la RMS's "Right to Read".
Evidently the CD's were encrypted with time senstive keys. Medical students could buy access to the data for the time that they were in school, but after they completed school they had to continue to pay several hundered dollar's a year to the publisher to be able to continue to access the book's contents (it did include access to updates too).
I never heard anymore about it. Hopefully it didn't do very well. It was a bad precedent a la RMS's "Right to Read".
