I'd recommend reading Orwell's earlier works (which might or might not be public domain in the US, but is in Canada, Australia and parts of the EU). Like "Down and Out in Paris and London". Nothing at all like 1984 or Animal Farm, but still really good.
Extracting content from an LCP "protected" ePub (included are also arrogant messages from the Readium consortium that created the DRM)
Borrowing e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems
I really really doubt this is due to political reasons. Especially as Sweden Democrats have zero influence over practical, administrative procedures. Sweden is the furthest from a corrupt country when it comes to enforcement of law and order. Sweden's immigration rules and framework is super strict and even affects kids who were born there and lived there 20 years, who have never lived in their parents home country. They still get deported sometimes. It's awful. But blame the right thing.
Yingwu
joined 5 months ago
Why is DRM necessary? In the EU, many countries mostly just use digital watermarking for their native language e-books bought from stores (e.g. Germany and the Nordics). We got the music industry to get rid of DRM on music files. I'd argue watermarking is enough to discourage people, and no matter the DRM or no DRM all books still find their way to shadow libraries. I agree, as Terence also argues, that this is a very non-intrusive DRM, but which still has many problems of.. just being a DRM solution for one. The licensing fee to allow support for LCP is also absurd, and ranges from a few thousand USD to tens of thousands. There are therefore no FOSS apps capable of supporting the DRM, like KOReader or Librera. The solution in itself is not fully FOSS either.
And aren't you annoyed by their arrogant tone and how they try to blame, guilt, and threaten their way forward?