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Subject: www/philosophy ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de....
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:28:03 +0000

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 <h2>Elektronische Bücher müssen unsere Freiheit erweitern, nicht mindern</h2>
 <p>von <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard 
Stallman</strong></a></p>
 
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+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --&gt;
+&lt;!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --&gt;
+&lt;title&gt;E-books must increase our freedom, not decrease it
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation&lt;/title&gt;
+&lt;!--#include 
virtual="/philosophy/po/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.translist" --&gt;
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --&gt;
+&lt;h2&gt;E-books must increase our freedom, not decrease it&lt;/h2&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.stallman.org/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard
+Stallman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;div class="announcement"&gt;
+  &lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Also consider reading &lt;a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html"&gt;
+E-Books: Freedom Or Copyright&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+  &lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote class="note"&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html"&gt;Join our 
mailing list about the dangers of eBooks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This article was originally published by the Guardian with changes.
+This version restores the original version of some of the changes.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I love The Jehovah Contract, and I'd like everyone else to love it
+too. I have lent it out at least six times over the years. Printed
+books let us do that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I couldn't do that with most commercial e-books. It's &ldquo;not 
allowed&rdquo;.
+And if I tried to disobey, the software in e-readers has malicious
+features called Digital Restrictions Management or DRM to restrict reading,
+so it simply won't work. The e-books are encrypted so only that
+malicious software can display them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Many other habits that we readers are accustomed to are &ldquo;not
+allowed&rdquo; for e-books. With the Amazon <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>&ldquo;Kindle&rdquo;,</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>&ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; (for which &lt;a 
href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html"&gt;&ldquo;Swindle&rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;
+is a more fitting name),</em></ins></span> to take one example,
+users can't buy a book anonymously with cash. &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; books are
+typically available from Amazon only, and Amazon makes users identify
+themselves. Thus, Amazon knows exactly which books each user has
+read. In a country such as the UK, where you can be &lt;a
+href="http://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#07_April_2012_%28Wrong_book%29"&gt;prosecuted
 for
+possessing a forbidden book&lt;/a&gt;, this is more than hypothetically
+Orwellian.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Furthermore, you can't sell the e-book after you read it (if Amazon 
has its way,
+the used book stores where I have passed many an afternoon will be
+history). You can't give it to a friend either, because according to
+Amazon you never really owned it. Amazon requires users to sign an
+End User License Agreement which says so.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;You can't even be sure it will still be in your machine tomorrow.
+People reading 1984 in the &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; had an Orwellian experience: 
their
+e-books vanished right before their eyes, as Amazon used a malicious
+software feature called a &ldquo;back door&rdquo; to remotely delete them
+(virtual book-burning; is that what &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; means?). But don't 
<span class="removed"><del><strong>worry,</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>worry;</em></ins></span>
+Amazon promised never to do this again, except by order of the state.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;With software, either the users control the program (making such 
software &lt;a
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"&gt; 
Libre</strong></del></span>
+<span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"&gt;Libre</em></ins></span>
 or Free&lt;/a&gt;)
+or the program controls its users (non-Libre). Amazon's e-book
+policies imitate the distribution policies of non-Libre software, but
+that's not the only relationship between the two. The <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>malicious</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;a 
href="/philosophy/proprietary.html"&gt;malicious</em></ins></span>
+software <span class="removed"><del><strong>features</strong></del></span> 
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>features&lt;/a&gt;</em></ins></span> described 
above are imposed on users via software
+that's not Libre. If a Libre program had malicious features like
+those, some users skilled at programming would remove them, then
+provide the corrected version to all the other users. Users can't
+change non-Libre software, which makes it &lt;a
+href="http://www.bostonreview.net/forum/protecting-internet-without-wrecking-it/root-problem-software-controlled-its-developer"&gt;
 an ideal
+instrument for exercising power over the public&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Any one of these encroachments on our freedom is reason aplenty to say
+no. If these policies were limited to Amazon, we'd bypass them, but
+the other e-book dealers' policies are roughly similar.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What worries me most is the prospect of losing the option of printed
+books. The Guardian has announced &ldquo;digital-only reads&rdquo;: in other
+words, books available only at the price of freedom. I will not read
+any book at that price. Five years from now, will unauthorized copies
+be the only ethically acceptable copies for most books?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It doesn't have to be that way. With anonymous payment on the
+Internet, paying for downloads of non-DRM non-EULA e-books would
+respect our freedom. Physical stores could sell such e-books for
+cash, like digital music on CDs&mdash;still available even though the
+music industry is aggressively pushing DRM-restrictive services such
+as Spotify. Physical CD stores face the burden of an expensive
+inventory, but physical e-book stores could write copies onto your USB
+memory stick, the only inventory being memory sticks to sell if you
+need.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The reason publishers give for their restrictive e-books practices is 
to stop
+people from sharing copies. They say this is for the sake of the
+authors; but even if it did serve the authors' interests (which for
+quite famous authors it may), it could not justify DRM, EULAs or the Digital
+Economy Act which persecutes readers for sharing.
+In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors
+aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be 
better
+known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. Why not switch 
to a
+system that does the job better and is compatible with sharing?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A tax on memories and Internet connectivity, along the general lines
+of what most EU countries do, could do the job well if three points
+are got right. The money should be collected by the state and
+distributed according to law, not given to a private collecting
+society; it should be divided among all authors, and we mustn’t let
+companies take any of it from them; and the distribution of money
+should be based on a sliding scale, not in linear proportion to
+popularity. I suggest using the cube root of each author's
+popularity: if A is eight times as popular as B, A gets twice B's
+amount (not eight times B's amount). This would support many fairly
+popular writers adequately instead of making a few stars richer.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another system is to give each e-reader a button to send some small
+sum (perhaps 25p in the UK) to the author.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy. (I
+mean non-commercial redistribution of exact copies.) So sharing ought
+to be legal, and preventing sharing is no excuse to make e-books into
+handcuffs for readers. If e-books mean that readers' freedom must
+either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.&lt;/p&gt;
+
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+&lt;div class="unprintable"&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
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+&lt;p&gt;Copyright &copy; 2012 Richard Stallman&lt;/p&gt;
+
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+&lt;p class="unprintable"&gt;Updated:
+&lt;!-- timestamp start --&gt;
+$Date: 2014/07/10 23:28:02 $
+&lt;!-- timestamp end --&gt;
+&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/div&gt;
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+&lt;/html&gt;
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