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CVSROOT: /web/www
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Changes by: GNUN <gnun> 16/10/05 15:58:21
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philosophy : ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de.html
philosophy/po : ebooks-must-increase-freedom.de-diff.html
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value="/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html"
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" --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 $
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retrieving revision 1.1
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--- 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 @@
<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard
Stallman</strong></a></p>
-<div class="announcement">
+<span class="removed"><del><strong><div class="announcement">
<blockquote>
<p>Also consider reading <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">
E-Books: Freedom Or Copyright</a>.</p>
@@ -29,10 +29,21 @@
<blockquote class="note">
<p><a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html">Join our
mailing list about the dangers of eBooks</a>.</p>
-</blockquote>
+</blockquote></strong></del></span>
-<p>This article was originally published by the Guardian with changes.
-This version restores the original version of some of the changes.</p>
+
+<p><em>This essay was originally published by <span
class="removed"><del><strong>The Guardian,</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em><cite>The
Guardian</cite>,</em></ins></span> on 17 April 2012,
+as “<a
+href="//www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/17/sharing-ebooks-richard-stallman">Technology
+Should Help Us Share, Not Constrain Us</a>”, with some surprise
editing. This
+version incorporates parts of that editing while restoring parts of the
original
+text.</em></p>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><div class="announcement">
+<p>Also consider reading <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">
+E-Books: Freedom Or Copyright</a>.</p>
+</div>
+<hr /></em></ins></span>
<p>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 @@
<p>I couldn't do that with most commercial e-books. It's “not
allowed”.
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.</p>
+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.</p>
<p>Many other habits that we readers are accustomed to are “not
-allowed” for e-books. With the Amazon <span
class="removed"><del><strong>“Kindle”,</strong></del></span> <span
class="inserted"><ins><em>“Kindle” (for which <a
href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">“Swindle”</a>
-is a more fitting name),</em></ins></span> to take one example,
+allowed” for e-books. With the Amazon “Kindle” (for which
<a
href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">“Swindle”</a>
+is a more fitting name), to take one example,
users can't buy a book anonymously with cash. “Kindle” 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.</p>
+End-User License Agreement (“EULA”) which says so.</p>
<p>You can't even be sure it will still be in your machine tomorrow.
People reading 1984 in the “Kindle” had an Orwellian experience:
their
e-books vanished right before their eyes, as Amazon used a malicious
software feature called a “back door” to remotely delete them
-(virtual book-burning; is that what “Kindle” 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 “Kindle” means?). But don't
worry;
Amazon promised never to do this again, except by order of the state.</p>
<p>With software, either the users control the program (making such
software <a
-<span class="removed"><del><strong>href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">
Libre</strong></del></span>
-<span
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">Libre</em></ins></span>
or Free</a>)
+href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">Libre or Free</a>)
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><a
href="/philosophy/proprietary.html">malicious</em></ins></span>
-software <span class="removed"><del><strong>features</strong></del></span>
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>features</a></em></ins></span> described
above are imposed on users via software
+that's not the only relationship between the two. The
+<a href="/philosophy/proprietary/proprietary.html">malicious
+software features</a> 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.</p>
<p>Another system is to give each e-reader a button to send some small
-sum (perhaps 25p in the UK) to the author.</p>
+sum (perhaps 25 pence in the UK) to the author.</p>
<p>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.</p>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em><blockquote
class="announcement"><p>
+<a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html">Join our mailing list
+about the dangers of eBooks</a>.
+</p></blockquote></em></ins></span>
+
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@@ -165,7 +181,7 @@
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@@ -180,17 +196,17 @@
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-<p>Copyright © 2012 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2012, 2015, 2016 Richard Stallman</p>
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-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
License</a>.</p>
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