DRM on ebooks is completely pointless as though I am a very shitty programmer, even I could cobble together some macro and/or program that would take screenshots of an ebook, use OCR software to discern the characters, then spend a little of my time cleaning it up – and bam, no DRM.

The human analog hole* will always be there. Well, at least until neural implants. DRM on ebooks is particularly impossible because the fonts have to be as good or better as those in a physical book for people to want to read it, and that can always be OCRed.

Once even one person does what I discussed above, the DRM curse is removed forevermore. DRM on ebooks is the equivalent of putting a six-foot-tall fence at the bottom a 30-foot-deep lake to stop the fish from swimming where they want to.

*Sounds a lot more sexy than it actually is.

Good cover, and Danielle Haim’s guitar is great. Love to watch her play. She and Samantha Fish are my favorite guitarists at the moment. Electronic music is good and I like it, but there’s nothing like someone who really knows her instrument.

The first time I heard the neologism “gamified,” being a student of slang from past eras I thought it might mean someone had added a bunch of legs to something.

The truth was even worse.