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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
I'm not arguing the morality of what Amazon did with 1984.
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I, on the other hand, am. It's probably legal, but that doesn't mean much in terms of morality. Add to this the fact that the back-pedaled pretty quickly after the public outcry that followed.
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I'm just saying that it's pretty damn weird that someone else has that kind of control over what's on your ereader.
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Only if you let them
I am glad that this happened pretty early on so people got to see what consequences using a tightly vendor-controlled device can have. Even if we consider DRM a necessary evil (and that's as far as I'm willing to go) you still have a choice of reading devices. And, yes, some devices are more equal than others.