Comments on: drmfree tag for items on Amazon http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 07:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Joe MommaSan http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462088 Joe MommaSan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462088 Does "take away your Kindle books" mean you lose the ability to access previously purchased books if Amazon decides to fire you as a customer? Seems like that one would be a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen if that's the case. Although taking away your ability to obtain new content wouldn't be much fun either. Without it, your Kindle is a $400 paperweight. Does “take away your Kindle books” mean you lose the ability to access previously purchased books if Amazon decides to fire you as a customer? Seems like that one would be a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen if that’s the case.

Although taking away your ability to obtain new content wouldn’t be much fun either. Without it, your Kindle is a $400 paperweight.

]]> By: Jonathan Badger http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462097 Jonathan Badger Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462097 @Joe Actually, you can put content on a Kindle without Amazon at all -- you can mount a Kindle as a drive and copy content over manually. Of course a large part of the selling point of the Kindle is the greater availability of commercial content over other e-ink readers such as the Sony one, but a Kindle wouldn't be a "paperweight" even without this ability. @Joe
Actually, you can put content on a Kindle without Amazon at all — you can mount a Kindle as a drive and copy content over manually. Of course a large part of the selling point of the Kindle is the greater availability of commercial content over other e-ink readers such as the Sony one, but a Kindle wouldn’t be a “paperweight” even without this ability.

]]> By: baconner http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462141 baconner Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462141 Sounds like Amazon is having some serious transparency issues... This confusing DRM situation and now the whole #amazonfail debacle (in which they are effectively censoring books with "adult" content without any indication why the content is considered "adult" and mis-tagging items as adult in mass). Sigh. I hope amazon wises up... Sounds like Amazon is having some serious transparency issues… This confusing DRM situation and now the whole #amazonfail debacle (in which they are effectively censoring books with “adult” content without any indication why the content is considered “adult” and mis-tagging items as adult in mass).

Sigh. I hope amazon wises up…

]]> By: annoyingmouse http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462145 annoyingmouse Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462145 Just read about the book censoring that amazon are endorsing: http://booksquare.com/open-letter-to-amazon-regarding-recent-policy-changes/ Quite frankly I think the drm thing (and I agree with Cory on that) pales into insignificance in comparison to homophobia being practised by the company. Just read about the book censoring that amazon are endorsing: http://booksquare.com/open-letter-to-amazon-regarding-recent-policy-changes/

Quite frankly I think the drm thing (and I agree with Cory on that) pales into insignificance in comparison to homophobia being practised by the company.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462158 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462158 http://www.examiner.com/x-3569-Denver-Internet-Examiner~y2009m4d12-Online-censorship-Amazon-strips-ranking-of-Gay-and-Lesbian-books http://www.examiner.com/x-3569-Denver-Internet-Examiner~y2009m4d12-Online-censorship-Amazon-strips-ranking-of-Gay-and-Lesbian-books

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462183 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462183 Re source material for "Locked out of Kindle": http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44350 Info that the victim had NOT returned Kindle books: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=420636&postcount=4 The anti-gay actions and the DRM situation are BOTH important. Proprietary DRM is one way Amazon hopes to retain power. And the more powerful Amazon is, the more it matters that it discriminates against gays. Re source material for “Locked out of Kindle”:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44350

Info that the victim had NOT returned Kindle books:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=420636&postcount=4

The anti-gay actions and the DRM situation are BOTH important. Proprietary DRM is one way Amazon hopes to retain power. And the more powerful Amazon is, the more it matters that it discriminates against gays.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462186 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462186 http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/12/amazon-censors-its-rankings-search-results-to-protect-us-against-glbt-books/ Amazon Censors Its Rankings & Search Results to Protect Us Against GLBT Books http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/04/12/amazon-censors-its-rankings-search-results-to-protect-us-against-glbt-books/

Amazon Censors Its Rankings & Search Results to Protect Us Against GLBT Books

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462190 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462190 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462002 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462002 drmfree... better tag every paperback drmfree… better tag every paperback

]]> By: Rob Beschizza http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462288 Rob Beschizza Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462288 I still haven't gotten a Kindle 2! I still haven’t gotten a Kindle 2!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462041 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462041 All books processed from Amazon's dtp location lack DRM: dtp.amazon.com -- unless you put it in specifically. All books processed through Mobipocket.com -- Amazon's subsidiary (a legacy ebook provider), have Mobipocket DRM attached. All books processed from Amazon’s dtp location lack DRM: dtp.amazon.com — unless you put it in specifically.

All books processed through Mobipocket.com — Amazon’s subsidiary (a legacy ebook provider), have Mobipocket DRM attached.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/12/drmfree-tag-for-item.html#comment-462044 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-462044 Would someone please provide a reference for: <i>take away your Kindle books, as happened to a customer who supposedly returned too many NONbook items.</i>? Would someone please provide a reference for: take away your Kindle books, as happened to a customer who supposedly returned too many NONbook items.?

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