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Originally Posted by Catlady
Oh, come on, this has nothing to do with perceived censorship but with DRM--you'd lose ALL your books in this scenario, not just the "censored" ones.
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Yes, de-DRMing does handle the issue... but lets stay within legality for a moment...
I'm talking more practical. Maybe Amazon is so big that they really do keep their promise and in 10-20 years you're still upgrading and they're "allowing" you to upgrade so most of your purchased books are still yours. If you do follow the straight-and-narrow path, someone else is still taking away your books by disapearing them out of your archive.
(The bit about Amazon saying the problems was just with "three" books, doesn't hold water, because if you go back to the original folks complaints, it's never more than three books on one person's account, but it's not the same three across the customer base.)
Am I touchie about someone else telling me what I read.... ya bet'cha.
When I was growing up there was a quite fight between the librarian and the local busy-bodies. The librarians stood up to the pressures to not ban books, from Twain's books, to "Catcher in the Rye" to "To Catch a Mockingbird" to... well some of them felt that ALL the "Godless" sci-fi should be in that ban category. (Harry Potter would have made their heads implode.)
What happens to so many of the books?
They just disappeared off the sheaves.
The library would replace what they could, but didn't keep buying certain books just based on economics. You couldn't go into the library and read what you wanted, even if it was listed in the library card catalogue. You could only read what you could get your hands on.
And beyond that I've had a book ripped off the stack of books I was carrying by one of the same type of busy-body and stood there taking the abuse of their opinions.
I will defend anyone's rights to read their books, keep their books.
Do folks have to break the law to keep their books???? Or does a company with as much marketshare as Amazon get to force their changing opinions on their customers????
I'd rather make a racket now.