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Re:U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress' by the_af on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:46AM (#17246605)
Even worse, and more surprising and alarming, a few weeks ago the Humble Bundle was selling region-locked EBOOKS! Someone explain that one for me, please. This means I wanted to buy a bundle of sci-fi books -- that's buy, not read for free -- and all of the most interesting books (old classics, by the way) were "not available in your region".

edit: a clarification: the ebooks themselves don't have DRM, but Humble Bundle will refuse to sell them to you if you're in whatever region they (or the publishers) don't want to support at the time.

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Re:U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress' by chaosite on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:50AM (#17246633)
Say what now?

And did Humble Bundle support fix your issue?

Man, I remember when a major Humble Bundle selling point was being DRM free...

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Re:U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress' by mrec on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:00AM (#17246717)
If it's like previous times I've seen this, the ebooks themselves will still be DRM-free, HB just won't sell some of them to you i.e. they won't be included in the bundle you get.
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Re:U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress' by the_af on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:10AM (#17246796)
Yes, thanks for clarifying. This is still tremendously disappointing. They show you the books in the bundle, but refuse to sell them to you. I wonder how this is a thing. It certainly lowered my faith in the Humble Bundle.
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Re:U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress' by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @10:12AM (#17247274)
I'm sure it's a distribution rights issue - probably someone who didn't want to deal with Humble Bundle owns the book rights in those regions. As a non-American I see it all the time with media.
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Re:U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress' by mrec on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:01AM (#17247676)
I'm sure it is too, but IMO Humble Bundle should refuse to carry books with those restrictions.
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Re:U.S. lawmaker: 'Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress' by the_af on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:07AM (#17246775)
I explained myself badly. It's like commenter mrec said: it's not that the ebook itself has DRM, but that they won't sell it to you, with the message "unavailable in your region". Very disappointing.
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