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Subject: www/philosophy ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de....
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 15:58:21 +0000 (UTC)

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     GNUN <gnun>     16/10/05 15:58:21

Modified files:
        philosophy     : ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de.html 
        philosophy/po  : ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de-diff.html 

Log message:
        Automatic update by GNUnited Nations.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.12&r2=1.13
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/po/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de-diff.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.1&r2=1.2

Patches:
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--- ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de.html        1 Apr 2016 14:49:01 -0000       
1.12
+++ ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de.html        5 Oct 2016 15:58:20 -0000       
1.13
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" 
value="/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/philosophy/po/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" 
value="/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" 
value="/philosophy/po/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de-diff.html"
+ --><!--#set var="OUTDATED_SINCE" value="2016-08-06" --><!--#set 
var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.en.html" -->
 
 <!--#include virtual="/server/header.de.html" -->
 <!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 -->
@@ -8,6 +13,7 @@
 
 <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.translist" 
-->
 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.de.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" -->
 <h2>Elektronische Bücher müssen unsere Freiheit erweitern, nicht mindern</h2>
 <p>von <strong><a href="//www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a></strong></p>
 
@@ -230,7 +236,7 @@
 <p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
 Aktualisierung:
 
-$Date: 2016/04/01 14:49:01 $
+$Date: 2016/10/05 15:58:20 $
 
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>

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diff -u -b -r1.1 -r1.2
--- po/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de-diff.html        10 Jul 2014 23:28:02 
-0000      1.1
+++ po/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de-diff.html        5 Oct 2016 15:58:21 
-0000       1.2
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 &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;
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&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;
@@ -29,10 +29,21 @@
 
 &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;/blockquote&gt;</strong></del></span>
 
-&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;&lt;em&gt;This essay was originally published by <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>The Guardian,</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;cite&gt;The 
Guardian&lt;/cite&gt;,</em></ins></span> on 17 April 2012,
+as &ldquo;&lt;a
+href="//www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/17/sharing-ebooks-richard-stallman"&gt;Technology
+Should Help Us Share, Not Constrain Us&lt;/a&gt;&rdquo;, with some surprise 
editing.  This
+version incorporates parts of that editing while restoring parts of the 
original
+text.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;div class="announcement"&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;/div&gt;
+&lt;hr /&gt;</em></ins></span>
 
 &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
@@ -40,13 +51,13 @@
 
 &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;
+features called Digital Restrictions Management (DRM, for short) to restrict 
reading,
+so it simply won't work. The e-books are encrypted so that only
+proprietary software with malicious functionality 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,
+allowed&rdquo; for e-books. With the Amazon &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), 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
@@ -59,22 +70,22 @@
 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;
+End-User License Agreement (&ldquo;EULA&rdquo;) 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>
+(virtual book-burning; is that what &ldquo;Kindle&rdquo; means?). But don't 
worry;
 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;)
+href="/philosophy/free-sw.html"&gt;Libre 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 the only relationship between the two. The
+&lt;a href="/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary.html"&gt;malicious
+software features&lt;/a&gt; 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
@@ -125,7 +136,7 @@
 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;
+sum (perhaps 25 pence 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
@@ -133,6 +144,11 @@
 handcuffs for readers. If e-books mean that readers' freedom must
 either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.&lt;/p&gt;
 
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;blockquote 
class="announcement"&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;</em></ins></span>
+
 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --&gt;
 &lt;!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --&gt;
 &lt;div id="footer"&gt;
@@ -165,7 +181,7 @@
 
 &lt;!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
      files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
-     be under CC BY-ND 3.0 US.  Please do NOT change or remove this
+     be under CC BY-ND 4.0.  Please do NOT change or remove this
      without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first.
      Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the
      document.  For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the
@@ -180,17 +196,17 @@
      There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
      Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;Copyright &copy; 2012 Richard Stallman&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Copyright &copy; 2012, 2015, 2016 Richard Stallman&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;This page is licensed under a &lt;a rel="license"
-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/"&gt;Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/"&gt;Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 
License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --&gt;
 
 &lt;p class="unprintable"&gt;Updated:
 &lt;!-- timestamp start --&gt;
-$Date: 2014/07/10 23:28:02 $
+$Date: 2016/10/05 15:58:21 $
 &lt;!-- timestamp end --&gt;
 &lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;



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