Thread: Christian Science Monitor labels Kindle a ‘Trojan horse’
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Old 03-19-2009, 11:03 PM   #33
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While I agree 10000%, something that needs to be given a bit of thought and can take a bit to wrap your head around is that there never has been true property ownership in the US. Even "owning" a home and land is an illusion. Try not paying the tithe to the PTB which we call taxes and you will find out just how much property you actually own.
That's a very good point actually. Consider all of the homes that have been taken by the US government to make way for highways and other infrastructure.

But anyway, there are issues with the copyright protection on Kindle works. I wish they didn't exist at all, but this is a publisher created problem, Amazon are just facilitating the demands of those publishers.

In this day and age you can get almost anything from illegal sources, copyright laws have already failed. Usually all the copy protection mechanisms do is annoy legitimate consumers of the material who PAID for it.

You can look at the games industry for 1000's of examples where the game was cracked immediately, and the copy protection element of the games were just a pain in the butt for people who paid for the software.
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