www/server/staging drm-in-schools-ebooks-when-l...

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 21/09/29 06:14:49

Modified files:
        server/staging : 
                         
drm-in-schools-ebooks-when-life-imitates-dystopian-literature.html 

Log message:
        Fix typos

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/staging/drm-in-schools-ebooks-when-life-imitates-dystopian-literature.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.11&r2=1.12

Patches:
Index: drm-in-schools-ebooks-when-life-imitates-dystopian-literature.html
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RCS file: 
/webcvs/www/www/server/staging/drm-in-schools-ebooks-when-life-imitates-dystopian-literature.html,v
retrieving revision 1.11
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -u -b -r1.11 -r1.12
--- drm-in-schools-ebooks-when-life-imitates-dystopian-literature.html  29 Sep 
2021 09:55:33 -0000      1.11
+++ drm-in-schools-ebooks-when-life-imitates-dystopian-literature.html  29 Sep 
2021 10:14:47 -0000      1.12
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 <p>In <cite>The Right to Read</cite>, a college student named Lissa Lenz has 
 an issue. Her computer, which contains all her textbooks and is the only 
-tool for writing her midterm project, brakes down. She asks her friend Dan 
+tool for writing her midterm project, breaks down. She asks her friend Dan 
 Halbert to borrow his computer. This is a big problem for Dan. If Lissa were 
 to read his books, the SPA&mdash;a government agency created to combat 
 sharing&mdash;would arrest him for copyright infringement and brand him 
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 It refers to any means used to control copyrighted and proprietary digital 
 works and hardware. Its purpose is to restrict what users can do. DRM is an 
 umbrella term for various tools aimed at achieving that goal, such as legal 
-agreements (which is the technique the dis-service in question is using,) 
+agreements (which is the technique the dis-service in question is using), 
 or malware that seeks to prevent specific actions. For example, to prevent 
 users from connecting to a website through the TOR network or from outside 
 of a certain geographical area (Ireland, in my case). For some examples of 
@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@
 
 <p>Some new schools where I live in Ireland are using iPads (which have a
 whole host of <a href="/proprietary/malware-apple.html">privacy and ethical 
-concerns</a> in and of itself) with the goal of moving all their student's 
-books to these online &ldquo;services.&rdquo; Benefits cited often include r
-educed weight in student's bags, ease of organization, and multimedia 
+concerns</a> in and of themselves) with the goal of moving all their student's 
+books to these online &ldquo;services.&rdquo; Benefits cited often include
+reduced weight in student's bags, ease of organization, and multimedia 
 capabilities. All of which are true, but what is often neglected is that the 
 move to digital devices requires students to agree to terms of service 
 imposed by companies. These terms restrict the student's ability to explore, 
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
 <p>When schools use physical books, students at least have the option of 
 buying them second-hand, or getting them handed down from a friend or a 
 sibling. If the practice of getting an ebook access code from a single 
-centralized publisher continues, we may see a publisher monopoly  
+centralized publisher continues, we may see a publisher's monopoly  
 where textbooks needed for our free education are held away from us with a 
 massive price tag. We may end up with a situation like Texas Instruments, 
 where a company with a stranglehold on education can charge astronomical 
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2021/09/29 09:55:33 $
+$Date: 2021/09/29 10:14:47 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>