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• paws4thot commented on Special offer: Neptune's Brood (UK only)
  Ref "Note", the same can be applied to "region encoding" on DVD players. It took me about 7 minutes to hack mine, including 3 minutes to find the handbook so I could get the exact model number. My sole reason for doing this was so I could play legitimately purchased R1 titles that have never had an R2 release....
• Ian S commented on Special offer: Neptune's Brood (UK only)
  Or you can spend about 10 seconds and have it downloaded, in every format you could wish for, sans DRM, from the usual jolly roger sources. Honestly, the book publishers are making all the same mistakes as the music industry - but without the excuse of ignorance. Anyone want to bet when we will reach "right price, immediate gratification, no DRM" stage? And will Amazon own the industry by that point? They aren't even trying to move their game on - they are still thinking dead trees on dusty shelves with themselves as gatekeepers....
• jpop32 commented on Special offer: Neptune's Brood (UK only)
  Ended up buying the DRMed book, and then got a pre-DRM-stripped version from, well, alternative sources. Man, publishers do make it hard to give them money......
• Charlie Stross commented on Special offer: Neptune's Brood (UK only)
  I found it worth the pain to install DRMtools. Makes it easier to square with my conscience, and although it's a pain in the neck the first time, once they're on your computer stripping DRM becomes a routine step....
• not.torp commented on Special offer: Neptune's Brood (UK only)
  Good regional idiocy example. I'm in Romania and on the iBooks store it's 2.99 EUR, which is close enough to 2 UK pounds. However, on the Kindle store I get the US prices, and it's listed as $7.43. First time I buy an ebook from Apple :)...