Book Burning the DRM-way: Amazon goes Medieval


	Book Burning the DRM-way: Amazon goes Medieval

Djiezes

7-18-2009 5:14 AM

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1984, amazon, big brother, copyright, drm, literature, orwell

Djiezes says:

Big brother is watching you & his name is Amazon. All in the name of Digital Rights Management (I think Orwell would've loved this newspeak).

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7-18-2009 6:27 AM

boniface

I bought one ebook from Amazon, in PDF format. I thought because it was a PDF (Portable Document File) it would be "portable" and I could move it to my laptop computer. Nope, not the case. When I moved the file, it would not open, because I did not have the right to open it on that computer. I WILL NEVER BUY AN EBOOK FROM AMAZON AGAIN!

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