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DRM – It's all about lock-in, by John Schember
June 27, 2011 | 8:51 am
By a TeleRead Contributor
Over the past few years I've been asked numerous times about my position on DRM (Digital Rights Management). Mainly I've been asked this by authors looking to start selling their works as ebooks. I've been sending the same email with more added each time in response to this and I'm tired of it. Here are my thoughts on DRM and how it is perceived by different parties. Since this relates to ebooks I'm going to focus on the publishing industry but I'm not going to ignore lessons learned by other industries.
I'm not a fan of DRM and I never recommend it to authors looking to sell their work as ebooks. If having DRM makes an author feel better or safer about selling their work as an ebook then I say do it. If DRM is what it takes to sell your work as an ebook then that's what it takes. I would rather see ebooks with DRM than no ebooks at all. However, again I recommend against DRM. That might sound contradictory but I'm of the mind that I'll take what I can get; something is better than nothing.
There are five major parties that are affected by DRM. Readers, stores, DRM vendors, publishers and authors. The point of DRM is to increase revenue. The most common excuse for why DRM is necessary is to prevent copyright infringement but I do not believe this is it's true use. DRM as a tool is used to to increase revenue though lock-in.
Often you will hear that DRM protects an author's work by preventing people from pirating content. I am not going to use the term "piracy" in this context because it does not apply. Piracy is what one of my close friends is fighting as part of the US Navy off the coast of Somalia. The act of downloading or otherwise acquiring a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright holder is copyright infringement. I am against copyright infringement and it should be stopped. I do not believe that DRM turns illegal downloads into payed downloads. This argument is a red herring used to take the focus away from DRM's other purposes.
DRM Does Not Stop Copyright Infringement
There are many different DRM technologies used with ebooks. The biggest are Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Noble's (B&N) Social, Adobe's ADEPT and Apple's Fairplay. All of these DRM schemes excluding Apple's Fairplay have been broken. It is trivial to remove each of these from a protected ebook file. The only reason Apple's Fairplay has not been broken is not due to it being superior to the others. It is due to all books sold in Apple's iBooks store can be purchased in one of the many other stores that uses a circumventable DRM system. There simply isn't any reason to put any effort into breaking Fairplay for ebooks.
Again the main reason given for why DRM is necessary is to stop copyright infringement. However, DRM has been proven to be ineffective for this purpose. For instance, the music industry has given up on selling music with DRM. Instead they are suing infringers directly. All it takes for a DRM free file to be distributed is for one person to use a point and click tool to remove the DRM from one file. Or to have acquired the file without DRM at some point in the publishing process. That one DRM free file uploaded someplace on the internet can be shared again and again.
DRM does not stop willful or blatant copyright infringement because it is too easy to get around. DRM however does stop accidental copyright infringement. Such as a parent sharing an ebook with their child. However, can this really be considered copyright infringement?
This leads to the argument that DRM stops unintended copyright infringement. I do not believe this one bit. People are not stupid. They understand that it's not right to buy something and then turn around and give copies away for free. The concept is the same as buying a book, photocopying it then selling or handing out the photocopies. People know this isn't right and wouldn't do it unless it was willful.
The nature (technical) of DRM allows for removing it to be an easy process. With DRM, you are given the content, a lock and the key. You have to be provided with the key to unlock the DRM otherwise you wouldn't be able to use the content at all. Think of it this way. The key is required to view an ebook in the ebook reading application you are provided with. All one has to do is retrieve the key from the viewing application when it opens the ebook for reading. This is what some DRM removal tools actually do. These tools are even packaged into very easy to use, zero user interaction bundles.
Thus DRM does not stop copyright infringement because it's too easy to remove. It can be done by anyone even semi serious about unlocking their books. In the USA due to the Digital Millimum Copy Right Act(DMCA) removing DRM, in most cases, is illegal. Due to this the average user is prevented (who wants to be a criminal?) from removing DRM and must live with the limitations it places on the content they've legitimately purchased.
Perception of Ownership
Readers often dislike DRM due to the idea of ownership. In the case of a physical book, when you buy a book you own it. You don't own the content or ideas within the book but you own the physical thing. You can lend, sell, move, give or burn it. The same thought is being applied to ebooks. However, DRM adds artificial restrictions that remove some of what you can do with the ebook. I say artificial because it's an added restriction not a technical limitation of ebooks themselves.
Do you really own the ebook you buy? Many people will say yes and claim that it is no different from buying a physical book. However, sellers often do not agree with this assessment. Some sellers many claim that they are not selling books but limited access to content. This argument is not something I wish to peruse here. I'm going to take the view that when you buy an ebook you are buying the book itself and not a license to access it for a limited time and in a limited way.
When Does DRM Make Sense?
It makes sense to use DRM when there is no question about ownership. Meaning the user knows full well they do not own the content they're buying. Two examples of this are libraries and subscription services such as Mog.
In both cases there is no perception of ownership. You know full well that you are paying for limited access. The trade off is, for libraries you are getting the work for free and for subscription services it's typically low cost unlimited access as long as you are a subscriber.
Both models would not work without DRM because DRM is the only thing preventing the content from being kept permanently. DRM places restrictions on what you can do with a digital file. In this case the restrictions are necessary and make perfect sense. It's not a library if you can keep the books you check out.
DRM does not make sense when ownership is not questioned. That is what I'm focusing on. When you buy an ebook it should be no different than buying a physical book. The same privileges that apply to that physical book should apply to the ebook and DRM only serves to restrict what you can do with an ebook. I'm not talking about restricting you from doing illegal things, I'm talking about restricting you from doing legal and common things with an ebook such as reading it.
There is no way to argue that DRM is a positive thing for readers. I honestly cannot think of a way that DRM does anything other than inconvenience, and annoy. Even when it's implemented in a way that it isn't noticed today, sometime in the future a reader will run into it and be prevented from doing something that otherwise would be perfectly legal and reasonable. There are a number of reasons why DRM is bad for readers.
The first issue is, it often locks the book to a particular device. If you buy a book from B&N for your Nook, then purchase a Kindle you cannot read that book on the Kindle. You have to re-purchase the book for the Kindle. DRM removes the ability to move books you've purchased from one device to another.
The second issue relates to people who have been burned by DRM. Ebooks have been around for decades. There are cases where a store or DRM provider has gone out of business. Suddenly thousands of dollars (this really has happend) worth of ebooks cannot be read because the files cannot be authorized against the DRM server. Don't think this is a one time thing in a small industry either. This has happened in the music industry. Such as when Yahoo Music shut down. Not to mention the uproar when Microsoft tried (still going to but postponed for a bit) the same thing with MSN Music.
The second issue ties directly into the first. DRM restricts your ability to move content from one device to another. Without the store or DRM provider you cannot move content to another device. So if you get a new device (old one broke or it's just time to upgrade) you cannot read the ebooks you currently own on the new device. Your only options are to remove the DRM (illegal in the USA) or re-buy every book you already own.
DRM gives readers a poor experience. Buying a physical book gives readers more privileges with what they can do with that that work vs buying a DRM locked ebook. Copyright infringers have a better experience than those who legally and honestly purchase an ebook. An illegal copy of an ebook does not have the restrictions added by DRM because the DRM has been removed. Obtaining an illegal copy means a reader doesn't have to worry about any of the above issues regarding DRM. Readers shouldn't be punished by doing the right thing and actually buying an ebook!
In the world of ebooks, stores do not set the selling price in the majority of cases. The major publishing houses have been able to force stores into what is called agency pricing. In the agency model the publisher sets the price not the store selling the ebook. Think of it like the price printed on a physical book but stores cannot deviate from that price in any way. They can't even offer discounts or sales. What the publisher says the ebook sells for is what it must be sold for.
Since stores cannot compete with one another on price (every store is forced to sell the same ebook for the same price) they have embraced and come to love DRM. It is used as tool to prevent customers from buying ebooks from competing stores. It binds readers to a particular store and makes it difficult for them to go elsewhere.
Amazon is a prime example of this behavior (they're no the only one but they're the most successful). When you buy from Amazon you buy a DRM locked Kindle book. This book can be read on an Amazon Kindle, in Amazon's PC or Mac software, or their mobile software. You cannot however read your Amazon Kindle ebook on a B&N Nook. You are tied to Amazon's ebook platform.
The stores provide a disincentive for leaving them. Namely if you leave Amazon, for instance, to go to B&N you must leave behind all of the ebooks you've purchased from Amazon. You don't lose the ebooks from Amazon but you can't take them with you for reading on your new Nook. Readers tend to be people who have an attachment to their books. Many avid readers would not entertain the thoughts of either leaving behind their library or re-buying hundreds if not possibly thousands of books simply to change stores. It is true one could buy from Amazon and read on a Kindle then buy from B&N and read on a Nook without giving up the Kindle. However, who wants to carry two ebook readers around?
Stores are using DRM as a way to tie your ebook library to their platform. It is an economic investment that many people would think twice about leaving behind. They want to make it hard, technologically, physically, and mentally, for you to shop at a competitor.
DRM Vendors
This group profits directly from the use of DRM simply because they make their money from selling DRM systems to stores. Often these companies do more than just license DRM and also provide additional services. Content distribution is a big one. Licensing a DRM system is only a small part of the profits these companies bring in due to their DRM product.
The biggest player in this category is Adobe. Amazon doesn't count here because they don't license their ebook technologies to third paries. Adobe sells a complete ebook platform. DRM, content distribution, reader software for computers, readers software for embedded devices (ebook readers), and ebook authoring tools.
Companies like Adobe leverage their DRM with their customers (stores) just like stores leverage DRM with their customers (readers). They use it to create lock-in. All ebook DRM technologies are proprietary making it impossible for a store to move to another vendor without completely changing the DRM system they're using. Changing the DRM system is a major undertaking and can easily have a devastatingly negative impact on a store's customers. It is the hardest piece to change. If you want to use Adobe's DRM system then you need to be using Adobe's content distribution system. Also, if you want the ebooks you're selling to be readable (with DRM) on a dedicated ebook reader then you need to license Adobe's mobile reader software. Thus by using Adobe's DRM stores are locked into using other Adobe products and are unable to use another vendor. DRM is used to not just sell related products but to prevent leaving as well.
DRM serves two purposes for publishers. It makes them look like the good guy because they're trying to defend the ability of authors to make money. It also provides them with a source of revenue from people re-buying books they've bought before.
DRM is necessary as a way to reassure authors that their work won't be ripped off. Many authors rely heavily on their publisher. A publisher is there for handling everything aside from writing so the author can focus on what they know and do best, writing. Publishers tell authors that they need to put DRM on their work when they sell it as an ebook otherwise people will steal what they've written. The publisher does this to seem like they are the only ones that stand between authors and copyright infringers. I highly doubt publishers tell authors about all the various parties that make substantial amounts of money simply by putting DRM on an author's work. Money that doesn't always equate to an author making more themselves.
I don't know of any evidence that shows DRM increases sales / profits or that not using DRM reduces sales / profits due to preventing copyright infringement. There are many studies out there but they are often contradictory or from questionable sources. The music industry is a good example and a great model for the ebook industry in this regard. The music industry has gone though many of the issues that the ebook industry is going though now. The music industry has moved to a DRM free model for purchases and it's working.
A publisher is first and foremost a publicly traded company. They have a responsibility to their share holders and the share holders have a large say in the priorities and how the business is run. As such the number one priority of most business is to make their share holders as much money as possible.
The major book and now ebook publishers are not stupid. They have very smart people working for them and they understand their market very well. They look at profits based on various projections as a routine course of action. Right now requiring DRM makes them the most money. Again it has nothing to do with copyright infringement. This has everything to do with publishers knowing their customers.
Readers tend to be people who become engrossed and committed to a particular author, character or story. Moving from physical books to ebooks it's not uncommon for readers to re-buy their favorite books. I've probably purchased the Lord of the Rings four or five times over the years (anniversary edition, hardcover, omnibus, ebook); I'm willing to do this because I love the story. Publishers prey on this by requiring DRM and stores are happy to comply because if the reader wants to move to a different store (or ebook reading device) the reader often must re-buy their books for the store's associated device.
Instead of creating new editions with additional content like the Movie Industry does, with extras on DVDs and Blu-Ray releases, ebook publishers are using DRM in place of incentives for readers to re-buy the same content. There is no guarantee that DRM locked content purchased today will be readable tomorrow. There is no guarantee that DRM locked content purchased today can be moved to other or new reading devices. Often the only option is re-buying. It's the love readers have for their favorite books that is being exploited by publishers as a way to increase revenue. It would be one things if say buying the anniversary edition of the Lord of the Rings came with a biography of J. R. R. Tolkien but it's another thing to sell an anniversary edition that is only readable in one place or for a limited time.
The biggest fear for the average author (aside from being unknown) is having their work stolen. Writing is hard and time consuming and authors want to be compensated for their work. DRM is touted as the best way to prevent people from copying an author's work and distributing it without compensating the author.
DRM gets an author nothing. Again, it is very easy to circumvent. Even if it were possible that DRM was unbreakable, copyright infringers will just take pictures of each page of the physical book and distribute those. This happend with the last Harry Potter book and the leaked pictures were even available on the internet a week before the book was released for sale. DRM does not protect an author's work.
DRM is not why people pay money for ebooks. At least it's not why people want to buy ebooks. They do it for the love of reading. If you are an author, don't try to make it harder for your readers to actually read your work. DRM does nothing good for you and it does nothing good for your readers. The only way DRM could make you a little bit of money is the few people who will re-buy your work when they change reading devices. You're better off giving your readers a great experience so they will want to buy more of your works than trying to sell the same thing to them twice and embittering them.
The big thing to remember about DRM is it can be broken. I personally see it as a way to annoy people who do the right thing and buy ebooks by making it hard for them to read the what they have bought. It does nothing for people who don't want to pay because DRM is easily removed and they will just download it without DRM. By downloading without DRM people get a better experience since they don't have to worry about things like will I be able to read this book on my device if I buy from store X vs store Y.
From the perspective of readers and authors DRM does nothing good and has no benefits. The other parties involved (stores and DRM vendors in particular) in the ebook selling process have a very vested interest in keeping ebooks tied down with DRM. Simply put, it makes them too much money to do away with it. My advise to authors is let readers get the most out of your work. Make them happy and don't leave them feeling cheated.
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I never once said that taking someone elses work is anything but wrong. If you had read I even say that is is wrong in the fourth paragraph.
I don't focus on how an authors feels when their work is ripped off because it's obvious how they feel. It sucks. I've had my work ripped off and it's not fun. The point of this article is not to give ways to help authors, it's to show that the most common way authors are protected actually does not do anything to protect them. Saying DRM protects authors is a lie that is bing told to cover up what I see is the real use of DRM.
Circumventing DRM may be easy but in the USA it is illegal. People may be happy with their Kindle today but when Amazon decides to start deleting books from it, which has happened, people start looking elsewhere to shop. Their options are essentially throw away the books they've bought to become a criminal and run the risks associated with it. Just because you're okay with breaking the law for convience doesn't mean others are.
I've given my view of why I think DRM is so heavily used in the publishing industry. Instead of flat out saying my explanation is wrong why don't you try giving your alternative explanation. Then people can decide which they feel is more accurate. All you've given is a statement that I'm wrong. Not even a single fact or explanation. If DRM does not protect authors and it's not used as a way to increase revenu through lock-in then why is it so widley used?
An absolutely excellent analysis of the futility and irrelevance of DRM, and the vested interests that work to use it to their own dark advantage.
Those vested interests work hard to create the false bogey man argument that titles are being pirated and downloaded yet no evidence of this has ever been proffered. They have been very successful, as evidenced by the number of publishers and authors hereabouts who are convinced by their smoke and mirrors.
That titles appear on Pirate sites is clear. That there is any significant level of actual downloading is totally unsupported by any evidence. That any of those who may possibly have downloaded would otherwise have paid for a legit copy is also totally unsupported by any evidence.
Calibre does not and cannot convert DRM protected files. DRM circumvention systems are also illegal under the DMCA. I recommend you actually read the DMCA. There are exceptions that allow for removing DRM in a limited number of cases. Personal use is not one of them. The DMCA is very different from copyright and the DMCA covers more than just distribution.
The DMCA is an oppressive and over bearing piece of legislation that most Americans, imho, are happy to ignore when it comes to their own property.
In addition it has not been legally established whether it negates the well established principle of fair use. So removing DRM from legally purchased music and eBooks of one's own, for one's own use, has not actually been established as illegal per se.
Thankfully I myself don't live in the US and don't have to pay it any heed.
While the DMCA has not been tested in court that does not mean it is not enforcable. In the US a law is enforcable and considered valid until a court strikes it down in hole or part. Meaning you can still be taken to court and be forced to go through a long legal battle over it. As part of the first the law itself is often challenged along with trying to prove inoccence.
I personally will not put my hopes with the DMCA being found to not apply in personal use cases. This relies to heavily on how a judge's interpertation.
I will also point out that the GNU GPL which is used by many open source projects like calibre has never been tested in a US court either. Just because it's not tested doesn't mean it's not enforcable and it can be treated as not applying.
First time e-publishing and I found your comments very helpful. Thanks for writing them.
I also found your take on DRM enlightening. I agree whole-heartedly with "lock-in". I don't know about every avid reader out there, but I, myself, feel like I shouldn't have to download questionable programs that are possibly illegal just so that I can read a book I purchased on my iPhone, with my computer. I happen to really like the iBooks set up for reading, however there isn't an app for use on a pc. Do I feel 'locked in'? You better believe it. Why should I have to go through "hell and highwater" just to view an EPUB file that I purchased?
I personally think that this should be taken to courts and money reimbursed to all the people that have had to purchase multiple copies of what is, in essence, the same file or the same book. The publishing companies need to come together and create a "DRM transfer" program that is legitimate and legal.
I'm not saying that DRM should necessarily be outright done with, but they should have a method for translating DRM for complete cross-platform abilities. It should be made "if anything" more secure and more mobile. If that means I have to sign in to an account to verify the transfer, then that's fine with me.
In all reality that's what they need to focus on. It's not "accessibility" that is the issue, it's copy and transfer protocols for the books. The file itself should be viewable on any platform, whether kindle or iBooks or whatever you please, but copying and transferring the files should be set to need verification and it needs to be verified by a "non-business" entity, if competitors have issues with exchanging information.
I know your post was centered on how things are, and this is more hypothetical talk, but honestly.. If I bought a burger from McDonald's, why should I have to scarf it down in the store, when I want to go home and enjoy it? It's my burger, isn't it? Well, it's my book too! I might be able to understand if eBooks were a lot less expensive, but when they sell for close to the same cost as the physical copies, you expect to get the same portability from it.
Another thought on how it could work, is if all the "eReaders" had a access protocol, where it detects the type of DRM used, prompts you for your user name and password, to verify access.. ah.. but that would still have the problem of stores going out of business and verification being impossible. I digress.
I was researching the eBook DRM "lock-in" argument as I update one of my books (The Coming ePublishing Revolution in Higher Education) when I rediscovered and re-read this well reasoned 2011 post. A few things have changed in the interim. Firstly, Apple's FairPlay DRM can now be removed with an application called Requiem (author = Brahms). There are a number of caveats that we need not get into here. Thus, it's now fair to say that all eBook DRM schemes for ePub and Amazon formats are circumventable. Secondly, the agency model is no longer synonymous with inflexible pricing thanks to recent DoJ action against Apple and the big five publishers.
So the premise that DRM is easily circumvented is actually stronger now than when this was first written. However, the premise that the market has been forced to rely almost exclusively on non-price competition is weaker.
The lock-in argument cited here seems to be strongest in the case of Amazon versus everybody else due to the dual barriers of format (KF8 vs EPUB) and DRM (AZW versus ADEPT, Social and FairPlay). It's even stronger when the eReader is hardware rather than software-based. Those who have removed Kindle DRM and converted to ePub may want to comment on whether that produces satisfactory results or not.
Of course this is all easily countered by citing the availability of devices such as the iPad where there's a free app for every kind of DRM encumbered eBook around. One can buy eBooks from Amazon, B&N, Apple and others without a great deal of effort and read them all on an iPad.
So where's the lock-in?
It might be argued that convenience is a velvet lock-in. Becoming conversant with all of the features, conventions and eccentricities of one vendor might militate against flitting from one eBook store to another but friction is not a lock. Minimizing credit card and personal information exposure might be another inhibitor. So using the term "lock" seems overreaching.
That's not to say that DRM doesn't have sub rosa purposes. Defeating the secondary (used) book market is certainly one of them. A transferable eBook, like an illicit copy of an eBook, is a lost sale in the minds of many in the book business.
The collateral damage here is that true ownership of a copy of an eBook is not legally possible. Theoretically, one cannot even will their eBook collection to their heirs. Of course if you circumvent the DRM and archive your collection, you will have practically restored many but not all of the privileges of ownership. We have actually witnessed the shuttering of eBook vendors and some customers of those failed businesses lost eBooks that they paid for. This seems to qualify as a lock that can only be broken by circumventing DRM.


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There are a few people that are greatly affected by the death of Taco Bell founder Glen W. Bell, Jr., who passed away Monday, January 18 at the age of 86. Bell left an impact on the restaurant world as one of the leading founders of fast food, particularly Mexican fast food. If you don't think so, check the numbers.
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|Green pepper
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|Calf s liver slices
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|All purpose flour
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|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|Apple juice
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
1. In 12-inch skillet over medium heat, in 2 tablespoons hot butter or margarine (1/4 stick), cook onions, green pepper, and 1/4 teaspoon salt, stirring occasionally, until tender and lightly browned. Remove onion mixture to one side of warm large platter; keep warm.
2. In same skillet over medium heat, in 2 more tablespoons hot butter or margarine (1/4 stick), cook apple wedges until tender, turning apple wedges once during cooking. Remove apple wedges to platter with onion mixture.
3. Meanwhile, trim any membrane from calf's-liver slices. On waxed paper, mix flour, pepper, and 1 teaspoon salt; use to coat liver slices.
4. In same skillet over medium heat, in 2 more tablespoons hot butter or margarine (1/4 stick), cook liver slices about 5 minutes, turning once, until crisp and browned on outside and delicate pink inside (medium). (Don't overcook, or liver will be tough.) Arrange liver slices on same platter with onion mixture and apple wedges.
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Joan Marie Rhines Carlini (Joanie), born June 14, 1941 completed her service here on Earth April 4, 2013 and went home to be with her Heavenly Father.Â
She passed peacefully at home with family. Joanie was a committed member of Word Tabernacle Church, where she was an Altar Counselor and a Prayer Intercessor. She lived her life excited to tell everyone about the power of Jesus Christ and His love for them.Â
A Johnsonburg man charged with operating what authorities deemed "a sophisticated and significant marijuana grow operation" from his home, was sentenced in Elk County Court Thursday to serve 12 to 24 months behind bars in Elk County Prison.
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"At this point in time the Commonwealth is in the dark as to what evidence might be," said Elk County District Attorney Bradley J. Kraus who was in Elk County Court Thursday seeking to compel the discovery of potential expert witnesses and documents to be used in the defense of a Ridgway man headed to trial next month on charges of marijuana manufacturing.
Violet E. Breakey, 86, of Elk Haven Nursing Home in St. Marys died on Wednesday evening, April 3, 2013 at Elk Haven following a lengthy illness.
She was born on October 19, 1915 in Ridgway to Swedish immigrants Otto and Lilly Larson Magnuson.
She married Donald M. Breakey in September of 1956. He died in 1965.
Once again the Ridgway-Elk County Chamber of Commerce and Main Street Manager Michelle Bogacki are busy preparing for the Fourth Annual Community Wide Yard Sale scheduled for May 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine.
For the time being, Johnsonburg and Ridgway will maintain their respective baseball teams.
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John C. Lincoln Health Network
Diagnosis: Overcrowded Data Center. Remedy: Virtualization
"Intel's Xeon processors work with the VMware Infrastructure 3 platform to give us the maximum server consolidation per dollar. If our virtual infrastructure was a car, we'd be getting more than 100 miles per gallon."
Join Experience S.A
JOIN is using a software-defined data center approach to deliver world-class 4G services and cloud infrastructure to customers, and VMware NSX is enabling the service provider to develop and scale new machine-to-machine (M2M), mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) and other enterprise cloud service offerings across the European continent.
"We were able to define the best possible infrastructure that would give us the means to provide robust and flexible services and to foster a flexible growth."
JSOL Corporation
Originally a division of The Japan Research Institute, Limited, JSOL offers IT solutions to customers in the manufacturing, distribution & services, finance and public utilities sectors, and has built up a strong track record in the provision of a comprehensive service covering everything from IT consulting to system building and operation. Since partnering with NTT Data in January 2009, JSOL has expanded its capabilities to become a total service provider in the field of IT. JSOL needed to be able to manage a rapidly growing VM environment, and chose VMware vCenter Operations Manager to help staff effectively manage this dynamic customer-facing environment.
"Virtualizing all our applications has provided us with a great foundation to expand our operations into the cloud and has given us a competitive edge by being able to offer our farming software as-a-service to our customers. Our old infrastructure was creaking at the seams, but we have now built a stable, reliable and highly scalable infrastructure that will stand the test of time."
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Use VMware Technology To Guarantee The Availability Of Healthcare Critical Applications While Saving Money, Power And Space In The Datacenter
"Running applications on ESX ensures their reliability, which is the number-one reason we began adopting it across the board in our datacenter. So many of our applications and systems are absolutely vital to staff and patients. So making sure they're available whenever they're needed is our paramount concern."
Kaneka Corporation
To support its global expansion, Japanese chemical manufacturer Kaneka Corporation decided to move to an integrated virtual IT infrastructure, managed via the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. Ongoing support from VMware consultants ensures any issues are rapidly resolved, while also helping to build the skills and knowledge of the company's own IT staff.
"Crucially, our own staff learned from working alongside VMware Professional Services, meaning that this project greatly improved their knowledge of virtualized systems"
Kaseya wanted to have its entire hardware infrastructure hosted externally to reduce costs and improve flexibility. It was also keen to start delivering a SaaS offering to its customers. Kaseya made the move to the cloud and created a managed software-as-a-service platform, based on VMware technology.
"Working with VMware has enabled us to achieve the completely hardware-free environment we wanted. Our main driver for the switch to a cloud model was to cut costs, but we've realised so much more than that from our move – increased security and availability, improved flexibility and better customer service to boot!"
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Kaweah Delta Health Care District is using VMware to Dramatically Improve Availability and Run Tier 1, Mission-Critical Applications—Plus Create a New Revenue Stream
"We are moving as many of our mission-critical applications to the VMware environment as we can. I see VMware as our primary platform. It gives me peace of mind about availability and performance because it just works. I never have to deal with it. And the improved utilization helps control costs. These days, the first thing we ask a new software vendor is, 'Does it run on VMware?'"
A Trusted Advisor from VMware Professional Services Supports KBC
KBC needed a single point of contact to help support the careful planning of their virtualization program and to help maintain their mission-critical production systems. The Bank considers it important that there is a resource supporting the technology they purchase. They require access to Product Management and other VMware resources with someone on hand to guide them and make sure they have a voice within VMware. To meet these needs, they invested in the Technical Account Manager (TAM) Service.
"As a finance company, we want to know what we're running in our data centers. Our VMware specialist goes deep into the VMware technologies, and we don't want to make any compromises. When we are stuck in our design, when we have issues in test or production, when we want information on new tools or have new ideas, our TAM is our advocate, our helper and our solution provider."
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Kindred Healthcare Continues Business Through Disaster
"As a healthcare provider, in the case of a disaster, it is of the utmost importance that Kindred Healthcare can continue to do business as usual. And that means making sure that our internal service providers can maintain operational readiness even during a disaster. We contract with SunGard to provide our IT staff with 250 offsite PCs in the case of a disaster. The hardware independence of VMware ACE gives our users seamless access to their specific 'Kindred tool set,' regardless of the x86 hardware SunGard provides us. Knowing our staff will be able to keep Kindred Healthcare doing business as usual, using their same day-to-day computing environment, is an enormous benefit."
VMware Desktop Virtualization Enables Creation Of Multiple Environments With Isolated Operating Systems And Services While Server Virtualization Constrains Hardware Sprawl And Delivers A Flexible Infrastructure At Minimal Cost
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KPIT Cummins
KPIT Cummins is India's leading technology solutions partner for global manufacturing corporations with special focus on Automotive, Energy & Utilities, Industrial Equipments, and Semiconductor industries. In 2012, KPIT Cummins concluded a service-transforming Private Cloud project. Using VCE's vBlock enabled KPIT to deploy a full-service Private Cloud with 100% Virtualisation of all applications. The project was so successful that KPIT expanded their virtualisation project to include end-users, enabling further IT initiatives such as BYOD. In these two videos, KPIT Cummins staff discuss why and how they implemented a Private Cloud solution, and how it is contributing to the success of their business.
"We have 100% production applications running on this private cloud, 100%. All business critical applications, everything is running on the cloud infrastructure."
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Kras dd, is a leading manufacturer of confectionery products in South East Europe. In early 2008, the project was initiated by replacing series of old computers. The aim was to reduce operating costs and simplify management of IT infrastructures through virtualization of desktop computers. By implementing VMware's virtualization solutions Kras created a series of improvements: reduced costs of replacing computers for more than 30 percent, while the costs of maintaining PCs fell by 70 percent. In addition, the increased productivity of IT departments and the general level of data security. Virtualization Kras has achieved significant energy and financial savings.
"We achieved an almost immediate response to business requests thanks to VMware. Less than two hours pass between the moment when we receive a request for a new computer and the moment when the new computer is fully functional. New computers are made fully operational up to ten times more quickly than before and maintenance costs have been cut by 70 percent. In addition, virtualization resulted in considerable energy savings and reduced our CO2 emissions by three and a half times, by which we joined the Green IT initiative."
Kronos Incorporated
Integrate VMware Infrastructure Into The Corporate Data Center And Hosting And Managed Services, Thereby Increasing Consolidation And Utilization Rates, Facilitating IT Management, Enhancing Application Performance, And Enabling Fast And Easy Deployment Of Windows Images On Virtual Machines
"Approximately 70 to 80 percent of our SQL and Oracle databases are running on VMware. Some of the databases in our virtual environment are fairly large—60 to 100 GB, and performance has been great. They're all running perfectly on VMware."
Kronos Incorporated
VMware Infrastructure 3 Consolidates Physical Servers Into Virtual Machines, Reducing Data Center Footprint And Power & Cooling Requirements
"VMware Infrastructure 3 Is The 'Cadillac' Of Virtualization Suites. The VMotion, HA And DRS Features Alone Make The Investment In VMware Technology Worth It!"
Kürt Zrt.
In 2010, KÜRT decided to offer its information security products also in the form of cloud-based services. The purpose of the project is to build a cloud which provides an advanced, scalable and secure environment for new and enhanced business services. Results achieved with VMware's solution: 2-3 times less hardware compared to an infrastructure built on physical servers, less operators and less energy needed, Ready-made functions for ensuring the uninterrupted availability of services provided to customers, Ready-made functions for measuring service consumption and for supporting billing, High availability, cost-efficient implementation of a disaster recovery site, Quick self-service provisioning of, development and test environments, Efficient vendor support, advantageous partner program
"The services we are about to introduce also incorporate academic knowledge, and security will be at the core of our VMware-based cloud infrastructure and its operation. This is what sets us apart from other similar service providers."
LeasePlan Corporation
In the past, operations in each country had their separate IT functions, but the company felt this set-up was too complex, costly and disparate. Leaseplan Infrastructure Services felt that virtualizing its infrastructure would be the only feasible way forward to ensure service levels, scalability, business flexibility and affordability for the multinational organisation.
"Consolidating the IT of thirty country operations into one location is no mean feat in itself; managing this mammoth infrastructure is even more of a challenge. It would be an impossible task without the help of VMware whose technology allows for fantastic levels of automation and control to ensure service levels are guaranteed."
Linxdatacenter is constantly evolving in response to the growing needs of clients. Linxdatacenter decided to extend the portfolio of services provided to clients and to introduce Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) based on the FlexPod platform. The current and prospective clients, who are using typical ICT and collocation services, gained an opportunity to rent comprehensive virtual environments – a virtual data center. In practice this means that, with access to processing capacity, RAM and significant disk space, they are able to create and manage virtual servers on their own. The entire hardware solution is managed by VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 products.
"Clients want to make sure that their data is secure and they want to know where exactly the data is stored. LinxCloud meets both of these requirements. Our service, also called "the private cloud", enables our clients to process and store data on a secure platform and at the same time reduce the costs of hardware and software administration and maintenance. Also, the cloud allows for flexible and immediate adjustment of the hardware platform performance to meet the current needs of the company. The same rule applies to software, which does not need to be bought. You can pay for its use in the same way you pay for electricity consumption. Such an option is much more affordable compared to the traditional licensing model".
Liquid Capital harnesses virtualization as key to innovation. In its charge to embrace tomorrow's technology as a means to improve its customer's experience, South African financial service provider to the motoring industry Liquid Capital, has made a significant investment in virtualizing its entire IT environment.
"You have to be brave, you have to have a business strategy and you must show results immediately as you build things for the future. If you need an effective disaster recovery solution it is simply a no brainer, you have to virtualize. It's the catalyst for the future and without it you won't be able to get to the cloud."
Lodgen, Lacher, Golditch, Sardi, Saunders, & Howard, LLP
CPA Firm Finds That the Numbers Add Up with Virtualization
"A marginal investment in VMware technology can result in huge gains in terms of productivity or competitive advantage—and having Intel technology helps ensure that you can get the most out of the investment you make."


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I am changing my timing chain, tensioner, guides and sprocket. the crankshaft mark on the new sprocket is 180 degrees from the keyway. The old sprocket mark is aprox 160 degrees from the keyway. What rule due I follow, Keep the shaft key marks at 12:00 or match the chain marks to the sproket mark which would put the crankshaft key mark 20 degrees to the left of 12:00? - Visitor
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Vera Jo ReigleFINDLAY — Two people are charged with aggravated murder in the slaying of a Findlay woman whose body was left on train tracks over the Blanchard River.
Daniel Bixler, 21, of Tiffin and an unidentified 17-year-old Fostoria girl were arrested sometime after the body was found around 2 a.m. Sunday. The girl is being held at the Seneca County Juvenile Detention Facility; Mr. Bixler is being held at the Hancock County jail without bond.
The body of 24-year-old Vera Jo Reigle was found by train operators on the tracks of a CSX trestle bridge over the Blanchard River, near the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., bridge, at 2:07 a.m., Findlay police said.
Preliminary autopsy results suggest Ms. Reigle suffered multiple blunt and sharp trauma wounds unrelated to the train, Hancock County Coroner Mark Fox said. The autopsy was performed Monday by the Lucas County Coroner's Office.
Dr. Fox said the wounds were "all over" Ms. Reigle's body.
Ihe investigation is ongoing, police said.
Before police officially announced the arrests, a Facebook page to honor Ms. Reigle, "Speak out for Vera Jo Reigle Messersmith she deserves justice," had been established.
Several people on the page said Ms. Reigle was a mother to a new baby and that she had a "hard life."
The page's description states Ms. Reigle was "brutally murdered" and asks people that if the victim were their daughter wouldn't they want someone to "speak where her voice can no longer be heard … "
Ms. Reigle was born July 11, 1986, to Verna Garner and Willard Reigle, in Findlay.
Attempts to reach Ms. Reigle's parents were unsuccessful.
Danielle Reigle Olsen wrote on the Facebook page that she was the victim's cousin and, although they did not talk much, she is "sad that she is gone," and whoever committed the crime "needs to pay dearly."
Daniel M. BixlerHeather Beltz wrote that she went to school with Ms. Reigle, describing her as a "sweet girl."
Those who didn't know Ms. Reigle also wanted to show support.
"I didn't know her but I hope that whoever did this is brought to justice," Joe Brownawell wrote. "I hope they get what is coming to them for doing this … awful death to her."
Desta Bixler, who said she is related to Mr. Bixler, wrote that she has more information than "anyone would think," but when contacted by The Blade, she said she was not allowed to talk to reporters.
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How the hell did Ben Affleck, 29, wind up replacing Harrison Ford, 59, as our hero? Who's next as Ryan -- Ozzy Osbourne's guppy son, Jack? Chronology hasn't been this royally fucked with since Memento. show more
Yet there's no getting around one awkward fact. The picture, which turns on a cataclysmic act of terrorism within U.S. borders, was made for a different audience from the one that's about to see it. show more
Mediocre terrorist melodrama turned even punier by real-life events, and that's before we scratch our heads at its lead-actor choice. show more
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Never mind the rest of this movie, the bomb explosion scene alone was silly enough. THAT was supposed to be a Nuclear Bomb?! NOT. If you really want to see what a real nuclear bomb can do, watch actual footage from nuclear tests in the 1950's! ANd those were small in comparison to the power of today's bombs. This movie scene wasn't even up to the destruction caused by the WWII atomic bombs dropped over Japan! I've noticed a trend in movies since the 1990's wherein they considerably downplay the horrific destructive power of atomic and nuclear warheads. Sheeeezzzzzz


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all slider cases leave the front exposed. i have one and there a lip around it so it wont hurt it if dropped on the front but yeah the screen will get scratched if you don't have a screen protector on it.
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No it doesn't, but you can buy screen protectors that will fully protect your ipod. And yes they will fit with the case
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Experimented a bit with process last night-- I love screenprinting and carving rubylith but sometimes don't have time to go and make a full print. But I like the look a lot and love the feel for illustrations. So I messed a bit with carving my rubylith as usual but also rolled some flats of relief ink today. Then with scanning and using the rubylith as a mask-- voila! a relatively fast way to lay down color and texture that still keeps that hand-cut feel.
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19th March 2015
David Cameron: 'Deeply depressing' UK teens would join ISIS who throw gays off buildings 107
1:36 PM — Young people travelling to join ISIS in Syria – a group that believes in "throwing gay people off buildings" – is a "deeply depressing" situation, the Prime Minister has warned.
10th March 2015
Report: Gay man stoned to death in Jamaica 224
7:01 PM — Video has emerged reportedly showing the bloodied body of a gay Jamaican man who it is claimed was stoned to death.
3rd March 2015
Boris Johnson: Cage should be condemning ISIS for murdering gay people 43
1:54 PM — Boris Johnson says campaign group Cage should be condemning violent acts by ISIS, such as the killing of gay men, rather than pointing the finger at MI5.
25th November 2014
Report: IS stones 2 'gay men' to death in Syria 27
4:44 PM — Islamic State (IS) has stoned two men to death after claiming they were gay, reports out of Syria say.
12th February 2014
Turkey: Mother of gay murdered boy screams 'I would have killed him myself' 67
11:07 AM — A father in Turkey has been jailed for killing his gay son – but the mother seems rather more concerned on how his sexuality brought shame on the family.
17th January 2014
Comment: We should honour the life of Vlad Tornovoi by standing up for gay rights in Russia 8
4:02 PM — Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Tom Hayes says last year's homophobic murder of Vlad Tornovoi should galvanise Britain into raising Russia's appalling LGBT rights violations at next month's Winter Olympics.
Brazil: Gay teenager murdered by skinheads, teeth ripped out by pliers 22
11:49 AM — A gay teenager has been tortured and murdered by a gang of skinheads in Brazil.
8th January 2014
Yemen: 25-year-old man shot dead for being gay 2
11:50 AM — Reports out of Yemen say a gunman in the southern province of Lahj has killed a man for being gay.
18th October 2013
South Africa: Man arrested over murder and sexual mutilation of lesbian
4:16 PM — A man has been arrested in connection with the murder and sexual mutilation of a lesbian in South Africa.
14th August 2013
Human rights lawyer says life is getting worse for gay people in Cameroon 6
12:33 PM — Human rights lawyer Alice Nkom says life has become even harder for Cameroon's gay population following the murder of LGBT rights campaigner Eric Ohena Lembembe.
2nd August 2013
Liverpool remembers murdered gay teenager Michael Causer on fifth anniversary 2
4:58 PM — A vigil is taking place this evening in Liverpool city centre in memory of gay teenager Michael Causer.
23rd July 2013
Jamaica: 17-year-old 'chopped and stabbed' to death in homophobic attack 58
2:26 PM — A teenage boy has reportedly been killed in a suspected homophobic attack in Jamaica.
19th July 2013
London: Protest to take place out Cameroonian Embassy in memory of murdered HIV campaigner 3
2:56 PM — A vigil outside the Cameroonian Embassy in London will take place next week in memory of murdered LGBT and HIV campaigner Eric Ohena Lembemb.
17th July 2013
Murdered Cameroonian gay rights activist mentioned during UK Parliament equal marriage debate 2
5:58 PM — The plight of a murdered gay rights activist in Cameroon was raised in the House of Commons during Tuesday's same-sex marriage debate by Labour MP Diane Abbott.
16th July 2013
Yemen: Al-Qaeda linked group kills man 'accused of being gay' 5
2:41 PM — Two militants from an Al-Qaeda linked group have shot dead a man in the southern Lahj province of the country, on the basis of his perceived sexuality.
5th July 2013
South African Human Rights Commission condemns murder and sexual mutilation of lesbian 3
6:19 PM — South Africa's Human Rights Commission has condemned the recent murder and sexual mutilation of Duduzile Zozo.
23rd June 2013
Ireland: Court hears farmer killed gay student for being the 'devil'
12:08 PM — Ireland's Central Criminal Court was told on Friday that a farmer who killed a student two years ago was motivated by "abhorrence" towards his victim's homosexuality.
11th June 2013
Mother of murdered gay teen Michael Causer hopes to raise £1 million in order to open LGBT hostel 10
1:24 PM — The mother of gay teenager Michael Causer who was killed in 2008 says she hopes to raise £1 million in order to open a hostel for vulnerable LGBT young people aged between 16-25.
7th June 2013
Israel: Police no longer treating LGBT centre shooting as hate crime 7
6:51 PM — Israeli police say the killing of two people at an LGBT youth centre in Tel Aviv four years ago is no longer being treated as a hate crime.
30th May 2013
New York: Memorial for gay man shot dead in Greenwich Village 3
3:45 PM — A memorial service has taken place in New York City for Mark Carson, a gay man who was shot dead earlier this month.


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Irish/English grandparents, NYC parents, grew up in Dallas, Texas. Ping-ponged from being the beloved baby of a large and awesome family to a socially awkward/rebellious elementary school student (I despised the simpletons that surrounded me) to the guy every mom wanted her daughter to date in high school (I learned to appreciate the simpletons). Got into Stanford but went to UCLA because I wanted to be a rock star (every now and then, I make inane choices), which brought me out to the city of angels where I became a journalist. Sunny/funny disposition with a lot of either mixed-up or well-balanced traits depending on your POV. I'm practical, objective, totally down-to-earth and fancy myself a gentleman. At the same time, I'm extremely open-minded, adventurous and have a healthy dose of the bohemian in me. I write words for a living (and songs for a dying, lol) In my spare time, I'm a glutton for new experiences and love a good adventure: Learning to fly a plane, scuba diving, sailing, skydiving, horseback riding, snowboarding... you name it, I've at least tried it. I also own a pretty badass Moto Guzzi motorcycle and still get a buzz every time I get on it. LOVE taking road trips. In fact, nothing inspires me more than travel (I have dual US/EU citizenship via Ireland and have visited 30 countries on four continents... So far :) I have lived through a huge earthquake, watched a volcano erupt, seen Mount Everest, swum in the Ganges and met the Dalai Lama (big shocker, he's really nice). My glass isn't just half-full, it's overflowing... Even the spillage is delicious. I'm looking for a smart, fit, fun, beautiful girl who feels the same way.
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Cooking , Dining out , Gardening/Landscaping , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Performing arts , Playing sports , Political interests , Shopping/Antiques , Travel/Sightseeing , Volunteering , Wine tasting
Billiards / Pool, Bowling, Cycling, Dancing, Other types of exercise, Running, Skiing, Swimming, Tennis / Racquet sports, VolleyBall, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines, Yoga
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I have Cats
I like Dogs, Horses
My cat is cooler than your dog... Can I talk about music now? I've played a handful of instruments since I was a kid and freelance for SPIN so music is a big part of my life. I'm into everything from the ancient to the au courant trendy trash.
I HEART India (especially Dharamsala), Nepal, Spain, particularly Madrid, Granada, Barcelona and the Costa Brava; Thailand, especially Koh Phangan (all the Kohs, really :); Prague, Budapest, Marrakesh (if you can bypass Tangier), Hong Kong...
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Fave films: Buffalo 66, Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi, Meeting People Is Easy, Withnail and I, Time Bandits, Brazil, American Beauty, Fight Club, Matrix, Head, The Battle of Algiers. TV: House, Family Guy, Globetrekker. FM: This American Life, Radiolab
In addition to regularly ruining my eardrums in EchoSilverWood, I dig art openings (lowbrow), comedy shows (highbrow) and nature (unibrow lol): hiking, camping, biking, swimming, etc. And I love knocking back some good booze and dancing with friends.
Thanks to expiring airline miles, I'm currently awash in Time, the Economist, GQ and Details. All time fave reads: A Fan's Notes, Tropic of Capricorn, Naked Lunch, Siddhartha, the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 100 Years of Solitude, War & Peace
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|5'2" (157cms) to 5'10" (177cms)
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|Slender, About average, Curvy, Athletic and toned
|No preference
|Dark brown
|No preference
|No Way
|No Way
|Social Drinker, Regularly, Moderately
|Other profession
|No preference
Freelanced for LA Weekly and SPIN, City Editor for the Onion, columnist and video series host for LA Times. Currently squandering my inheritance, lol, recording an album of original songs and shopping a script based on one of my columns.
|I'll tell you later
|No preference
|Never Married
|Never Married
|Have kids:
|Wants kids:
|Definitely, Someday, Not sure
|White / Caucasian
|No preference
Born and raised here but am a proud citizen of both the United States and the European Union via Ireland... Okay so my credit's not exactly AAA
|Spiritual but not religious
|No preference
|Bachelors degree
|Some college, Bachelors degree, Graduate degree, PhD / Post Doctoral
Poli-sci major at UCLA... Oh, and for all you must-be-six-foot-tall size queens out there, I'm actually, exactly 5'11" and a HALF... That's at least 6'1" in online dating.


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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – Hunters have a few more days to weigh in on a proposal to drastically cut the number of licenses and tags available for many of South Dakota's deer hunting seasons.
The Game, Fish and Parks Commission says a decrease in deer population prompted the plan.
The East River 2014 deer season would see a reduction of more than 7,000 licenses and 20,000 tags compared with 2013. The West River season would have about 4,000 fewer licenses and a reduction in tags of more than 25,000.
The proposal leaves the Black Hills with no antlerless licenses for 2014.
The commission expects to finalize the proposal Thursday and Friday at the Lewis and Clark Resort near Yankton.
People can comment on the matter until noon Thursday by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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