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Originally Posted by Giggleton
We is anyone who has access to the network, the connection makes us one. . . . Our ereaders already track our reading, it would be trivial to deduct money from our Amazon et al. accounts if we spend more than an hour or so reading a book.
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For a guy who started out sounding almost like an anarchist, you now seem awfully corporate. I don't claim this to be a defect in your thinking -- it could be more a reaction to defects in the thinking of people like me. However, I do want to point out that the internet is no longer a sole possession of countries where a distributor who aspires to distribute almost any text, regardless of political content, such as Amazon, would be allowed to operate freely. See:
Top 20 Internet Countries
An Amazon which has the powers you propose to give to it sounds to me like the great firewall of China on steroids.
The alternative? It's messy and inconsistent and actually not far from where we are moving.
P.S. Yes this post is way too political! Me bad!!! But maybe if we are really, really polite to each others, and try to keep at least some focus on books, the powers that be won't immediately intervene.