Like Apple and the iPod,Īmazon uses DRM to create lock-in: they don't want you using competingīut the DRM affects you even if you don't try to copy or move yourīooks. Repurchase the books they've already bought.

Makes another ebook reader (one that perhaps also gives authors aīetter deal) readers are stuck with the Kindle, unless they want to Show no sign of wanting to give up that control). Any DRMed book you buy for the Kindle isįorever locked to your Kindle until Amazon decides otherwise (and they In terms of strict analogy, Kindle DRM even prohibits you from moving That's a pathetic (and failed) attempt to replicate what was always a very natural aspect of printed books. Lending, which explains that only certain 'lendable' books ('lendability' being determined by the publisher) can be lent at most one time, only within the United States, for a period of exactly 14 days. To prevent sharing and the public benefit that institutions like The Kindle's DRM, however, is designed explicitly Library - an institution whose purpose is to continue sharing it forĪs long as possible. Your ability to use all the books you've bought.Īfter you read a physical book, you can give it to a friend or sell If you try to exercise these rights anyway, you mightīe violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) - whichĬould bring severe criminal penalties - and Amazon can try to revoke Your basic rights to share, sell, or donate a book are subject toįights with Amazon over the legal and technological restrictions they Then there's the freedom to keep a book - denied by a back door for remote deletion of books.' - Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation There's the freedom to give, lend, or sell a book to anyone you wish - blocked by DRM and unjust licenses. 'This malicious device designed to attack the traditional freedoms of readers: There's the freedom to acquire a book anonymously, paying cash - impossible with the Kindle for all well-known recent books.

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