amazon wants me to boycott them again

[piranha]

now they're using the DMCA to restrict where you can buy e-books.

i didn't buy a kindle because a) i don't like DRM, and b) i don't like being tied to an overlord (even if benign) for my reading pleasure.

this isn't going to change my mind, rather it's moving me back towards not even buying paper books from amazon again, because this isn't "benign" by any stretch of the imagination.

no kindle in my future now, definitely.

Comments

[desh]

Wow. Not only is it bad of them to try to restrict the use of this script at all, but they're going about it in such a quixotic way. Do they really think takedown notices will keep source code someone else wrote from being distributed? Didn't we solve that in like 1999? I still have my DeCSS t-shirt! If they were trying to prevent the use of the script via Kindle firmware updates instead, I'd at least have respect for their methods if not their goals.

-kindle

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's just... well, dumb. all it takes is a google search. are they gonna hunt all the links down and send them C&D letters?

i never got a DeCSS t-shirt, but damn, i should have.

[trulybloom.livejournal.com]

Bummer - I was actually thinking of asking for a Kindle for Christmas, but... no, not now. I'll stick with the library and the used book store.

-kindle

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

if you want an ebook reader, there are others without this problem.

Re: -kindle

[trulybloom.livejournal.com]

True. I just don't know anything about them. I liked the sales job they did when Amazon CEO what's-his-name interviewed on The Daily Show. it was just an idle "want" after that when, before that, I hadn't ever even considered it.

I'm not against getting new technology calling it a "fluke" like my father always did - "A computer? Who would want such a thing in their home?! No, no, that'll never happen. Here, have some paper and a number two pencil, you'll do much better"

But, I do find that certin technologies have to happen and fall by the wayside before other tecnnoloogies finally figure it out.

I think the whole DRM thing is still in its infancy - botu mucis and books. They're going to have to sort ot ot, becuse it's not winning them eny friends and, there, ir's not really doing what it intents.

If I buy a book, that price - to me - implies that I own it. I can color on the paper, tear the pages, rip them out, or I can take care of them and loan them to friends that I trust adn share them with my family members, hand them down to my kids, etc.

But if someone is telling me that I am still paying a lot of money to buy something proected - something that I'm only leasing for a finite period of time and that lease comes with all sorts of restrictions....

I HATE having to buy mulitiple copies so that I can have one on this cmoputer and one on that book reader and one of the oPod or whaterver. That's expensive and it's NOT convenient.

They either need to be WAY cheap (to the point where people won't care havnig to buy three of jour copies) or really miniscue restrictions if they're going to charge what they're charge. Point in fact - I won't by the SPN eps off iTumes, because of restriction and price - I;ll wait for the DVD, play just as much, but not have the same petty limitations.

I wonder how libraries and used book shops will fair if we get to the point where we only have eBoooks and paper books are found only in class cases in museums?

[huaman.livejournal.com]

I'm still boycotting them waiting on that apology for spamming followed by attempts to spam news.admin.net-abuse.announce, followed by spamming me in email that the only way the fuckers got was because I told them not to try spamming moderated groups with "net-abuse" in the name.

[firecat]

I only buy new paper books directly from Amazon as a last resort, but I do use their used book listings and I buy other things through them. Maybe I shouldn't.