www/philosophy copyright-versus-community.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       18/09/16 11:38:56

Modified files:
        philosophy     : copyright-versus-community.html 

Log message:
        Update situation with the Swindle.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.44&r2=1.45

Patches:
Index: copyright-versus-community.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html,v
retrieving revision 1.44
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -u -b -r1.44 -r1.45
--- copyright-versus-community.html     31 Mar 2018 00:55:44 -0000      1.44
+++ copyright-versus-community.html     16 Sep 2018 15:38:56 -0000      1.45
@@ -566,6 +566,11 @@
 buy it from Amazon, and Amazon requires you to identify yourself, so
 they know everything that you've bought.</p>
 
+<p>[Update: that was true originally.  As of 2018, it is possible to
+load books from other sources, but the device reports the name of the
+book being read to Amazon servers; thus, Amazon knows every book that
+you read on the device, regardless of where you got the book.]</p>
+
 <p>Then there is Digital Restrictions Management, so you can't lend
 the book or sell it to a used bookstore, and the library can't lend it
 either.</p>
@@ -1023,7 +1028,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/03/31 00:55:44 $
+$Date: 2018/09/16 15:38:56 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>