www/philosophy right-to-read.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       16/10/18 10:04:51

Modified files:
        philosophy     : right-to-read.html 

Log message:
        Substantial revisions in author's note.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/right-to-read.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.100&r2=1.101

Patches:
Index: right-to-read.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/right-to-read.html,v
retrieving revision 1.100
retrieving revision 1.101
diff -u -b -r1.100 -r1.101
--- right-to-read.html  15 Sep 2016 11:25:09 -0000      1.100
+++ right-to-read.html  18 Oct 2016 10:04:51 -0000      1.101
@@ -154,10 +154,11 @@
 the long arm of the SPA.  When the Tycho Uprising began in 2062, the
 universal right to read soon became one of its central aims.</p>
 
-<blockquote class="announcement"><p>
-<a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html";>Join our mailing list
-about the dangers of eBooks</a>.
-</p></blockquote>
+<div class="announcement">
+<blockquote>
+<p><a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html";>Join our mailing list 
about the dangers of e-books</a>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+</div>
 
 <div id="AuthorsNote">
 <h3>Author's Notes</h3>
@@ -182,6 +183,12 @@
 </li>
 
 <li>
+<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a separate organization not
+related to the Free Software Foundation, also campaigns against
+DRM.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
 <p>The following note has been updated several times since the first
 publication of the story.</p>
 
@@ -214,17 +221,8 @@
 campaign with two new proposed treaties, the TPP and the TTIP.  The
 TPP would impose the DMCA, along with many other wrongs, on 12
 countries on the Pacific Ocean.  The TTIP would impose similar
-strictures on Europe.  Americans should demand their congressional
-representatives reject the attempt to approve the TPP in the lame-duck
-session after the 2016 election.</p>
-
-<p>
-With Windows Vista, Microsoft admitted it had built in a back door:
-Microsoft can use it to forcibly install software
-&ldquo;upgrades,&rdquo; even if users consider them rather to be
-downgrades.  It can also order all machines running Vista to refuse to
-run a certain device driver.  The main purpose of Vista's clampdown on
-users was to impose DRM that users can't overcome.</p>
+strictures on Europe.  All these treaties must be defeated, or
+abolished.</p>
 
 <p>
 Even the World Wide Web Consortium has fallen under the shadow of the
@@ -233,12 +231,21 @@
 
 <p>
 Nonfree software tends to have <a href="/proprietary/">abusive
-features of many kinds</a>, which support the conclusion that
+features of many kinds</a>, which lead to the conclusion that
 <a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">you can
 never trust a nonfree program</a>.  We must insist on free (libre)
 software only, and reject nonfree programs.</p>
 
 <p>
+With Windows Vista, Microsoft admitted it had built in a back door:
+Microsoft can use it to forcibly install software
+&ldquo;upgrades,&rdquo; even if users consider them rather to be
+downgrades.  It can also order all machines running Vista to refuse to
+run a certain device driver.  The main purpose of Vista's clampdown on
+users was to impose DRM that users can't overcome.  Of course, Windows
+10 is no better</p>
+
+<p>
 One of the ideas in the story was not proposed in reality until 2002.
 This is the idea that the FBI and Microsoft will keep the
 root passwords for your personal computers, and not let you have
@@ -315,12 +322,12 @@
 <h3 id="BadNews">Bad News</h3>
 
 <p>
-The battle for the right to read is already in progress,
-The enemy is organized, while we are not, so it is going against us.
+The battle for the right to read is going against us so far.
+The enemy is organized, and we are not.
 </p>
 
 <p>Today's commercial
-ebooks <a href="/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html"> abolish
+e-books <a href="/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html"> abolish
 readers' traditional freedoms</a>.  Amazon's e-book reader product,
 which I call the &ldquo;Amazon Swindle&rdquo; because it's designed to
 swindle readers out of the traditional freedoms of readers of books,
@@ -346,19 +353,21 @@
 </ul>
 
 <p>Amazon's e-book distribution is oppressive, too.  It identifies the
-user and records what books the user obtains.  It also requires
-users to agree to an antisocial contract that they won't share copies
-with others.  My conscience tells me that, if I had agreed to such a
-contract, the lesser evil would be to defy it and share copies
-anyway; however, to be entirely good, we should not agree to it in the
-first place.</p>
+user and records what books the user obtains.  It also requires users
+to agree to an antisocial contract that they won't share copies with
+others.  My conscience tells me that, if I had agreed to such a
+contract, the lesser evil would be to defy it and share copies anyway;
+however, to be entirely good, I should not agree to it in the first
+place.  Therefore, I refuse to agree to such contracts, whether for
+software, for e-books, for music, or for anything else.</p>
 
 <p>If we want to stop the bad news and create some good news, we need
-to organize and fight.  The
+to organize and fight.  Subscribe to the
 FSF's <a href="http://defectivebydesign.org";> Defective by Design</a>
-campaign has made a start; subscribe to the campaign's mailing
-list to lend a hand.  And <a href="http://www.fsf.org/associate";>join
-the FSF</a> to help fund our work.
+campaign to lend a hand.  You
+can <a href="http://www.fsf.org/associate";>join the FSF</a> to support
+our work more generally.  There is also a <a href="/help">list of ways
+to participate in our work</a>.
 </p>
 
 <h3 id="References">References</h3>
@@ -458,7 +467,7 @@
 
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-$Date: 2016/09/15 11:25:09 $
+$Date: 2016/10/18 10:04:51 $
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