How long until books come with TOS, then?

ozlikethewizard a day ago | parent | next [-]

Damn now im looking forward to the day when books end up like physical game disks, where somehow you're not buying the book just a license to it, what a boring dystopia this is lol

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3eb7988a1663 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Common for college textbooks to have some digital-only component accessed with a one-time key inside the cover. Sometimes time-limited to a single semester.

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JustAnUserNameF a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As usual, Stallman already predicted this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

	▲	phoghed a day ago \| parent [-]
		Darryl W. Perry predicted this: https://www.c-span.org/clip/road-to-the-white-house-2016/use...

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jtbayly a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you ever heard of Amazon? Kindle?

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steve1977 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Many of them do already and have for decades

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david-gpu 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you please provide a specific example?

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delecti 20 hours ago | parent [-]

Pick up nearly any published book. Turn to the ~3rd page. There will be either a whole page, or sometimes the second half of a page, dedicated to a copyright notice. Very nearly every published book I've ever seen has that identical page. This isn't a recent thing. I grabbed my copy of Diaspora by Greg Egan and opposite the table of contents is a page that starts like this:

First Night Shade Books edition 2015

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, blah blah (it felt very ironic to transcribe that bit in particular to make this point)

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david-gpu 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Standard copyright boilerplate. Not terms of service distinct from copyright, which is the subject of this thread.

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delecti 18 hours ago | parent [-]

If you read the whole copyright page of a book and come away with the conclusion that it's anything but terms of use for the book, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.

	▲	david-gpu 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The thread is about terms of use separate from copyright law. It is the whole premise.

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steve1977 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is what I meant.

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paradox460 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They kind of do. There's usually a big scary notice on the imprint page scolding you for even thinking about piracy

	▲	david-gpu 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We are talking of TOS independent of copyright law.