[telecom] Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires

Barnes & Noble Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires

by Tim Cushing Nov 27 2012 Techdirt

from the ebooks:-where-'buying'-means-'renting-for-an-indefinite-period' dept

DRM rears its ugly, malformed, malignant, cross-eyed head again. Despite the fact that, as Cory Doctorow so aptly put it, no one has ever purchased anything because it came with DRM, an ever-slimming number of content providers insist on punishing paying customers with idiotic "anti-piracy" schemes.