http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/29/what-i-learned-at-cil2011/ or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk Mon, 20 May 2013 23:17:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/29/what-i-learned-at-cil2011/#comment-2344 Brian Herzog Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:22:06 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1734#comment-2344 @Chris: on a somewhat related tangent, I think this is the same reason why people reacted so viscerally to the TSA’s naked people scanners and enhanced patdowns. From childhood we’ve always heard that the American Way is “innocent until proven guilty,” but these methods show, even moreso than before, that every single person who walks into an airport is considered to be a terrorist, and treated accordingly. And even after you prove you’re not a threat, you’re still regarded with suspicion. DRM overreaches in the same way, and equally ineffectually.

]]> http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2011/03/29/what-i-learned-at-cil2011/#comment-2343 Chris Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:52:00 +0000 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/?p=1734#comment-2343 Regarding DRM: Even Apple has learned this. No more DRM on Apple’s iTunes downloads and Amazon’s MP3 store has never crippled their tunes. Hopefully the same will eventually be true for eBooks as well. I don’t think that a good starting point for the publishers (literature or music) is “all of our customers are criminals,” which is essentially what crippling their wares is telling people.

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