<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>>Maybe you should write to the editor and say just that. They no doubt<br>>are looking for ways to increase their subscribers. Maybe this<br>>experiment of there will lead to a digital publication.<br><br>I know that it's been mentioned before, in fact somewhere in the forums there are a number of posts regarding this subject.<br>The gist of Paul Hudson's response was that it's not something that they would be looking to do.<br><br>This may have changed lately of course because up until today they have never given an issue away for free, at least as far as I know.<br><br>And on the DRM front, it's unlikely that LXF would have survived the flaming if they'd DRM'd the PDF, would have been an interesting read though.<br><br>Craig<br></div><div style="font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Steve Dobson <steve.dobson@syscall.org.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Sussex LUG <sussex@mailman.lug.org.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 4 March, 2009 7:03:55 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Sussex] [Fwd: [Surrey] Linux Format free to download for 24 hours only]<br></font><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Hi Craig<br><br>CRAIG PEACOCK wrote:<br>>> I wrote to the editor asking for permission to re-distribute. I know<br>>> someone who is on the verge of installing Linux and having a mag to help<br>>> him learn may be all he needs. Got permission too.<br>> <br>> <br>>
They say: <br>> <br>> "However clearly without any DRM there's nothing stopping you from<br>> giving them to everyone, torrenting them, printing them, selling them,<br>> whatever. <br>> We'd rather everyone obtained the PDFs directly from us, but<br>> we can't stop you redistributing them for eternity. <br>> If someone does<br>> decide to put the whole thing on The Pirate Bay in 48 hours, I doubt<br>> we'd be particularly upset! ;)"<br>> <br>> <br>> Seems to me that they are not too bothered if anyone distributes it, which is a good thing. <br>> Nothing like a bit of (almost) free advertising, especially as it's powered by Torrent users and webspace volunteers.. good thinking on their part I think.<br><br>There is nothing *physically* stoping you. LXF probably guessed that if<br>they had employed DRM technologies than that would cause an adverse<br>reaction amongst the geek subscribers and they would loss
more<br>subscribers than this experiment is trying to attract.<br><br>As there is still this thing called copyright law, and as I depend upon<br>that law to protect the software I right under the GPL (and other<br>licenses), I would advise anyone wishing to re-distribute the electronic<br>copy to contact the editor and ask permission.<br><br>> I think I'd even pay a small amount for the PDF too rather than the paper version that fills much space.<br><br>Maybe you should write to the editor and say just that. They no doubt<br>are looking for ways to increase their subscribers. Maybe this<br>experiment of there will lead to a digital publication.<br><br>Steve<br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)<br>Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org"
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