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Originally Posted by tompe
Exactly. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle is a good book related to this.
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Sounds like a book I am going to have to read. This whole idea of any person or company being allowed to prevent me from accessing ideas or information -- that I have PAID to be allowed to access -- makes me nuts!!
How is the Kindle ever supposed to be taken seriously as an educational tool if the only textbooks you can read on it are those that Amazon decides you should be able to read?? Why should anyone be expected (especially in this economic climate) to purchase every type of ebook reader that is out there, just in case you want to read a book that's not from Amazon? Right ... need to have this type of reader for this DRM and this other type of reader for this other type of DRM.
I bought a Kindle thinking (foolishly, apparently) that it would mean simplifying my life .... not making it more complex. Good grief, even Apple saw the sense in allowing people to convert the music they purchased from iTunes into mp3 and play it from regular CDs or on another device. They still sell plenty of iPods AND, they get people with regular mp3 players to purchase music from iTunes as well. Smart move that. Stupid move on the part of Amazon.