www/philosophy copyright-versus-community.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       18/09/16 11:42:54

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

Log message:
        Move the Swindle update to a footnote.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.45&r2=1.46

Patches:
Index: copyright-versus-community.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html,v
retrieving revision 1.45
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -b -r1.45 -r1.46
--- copyright-versus-community.html     16 Sep 2018 15:38:56 -0000      1.45
+++ copyright-versus-community.html     16 Sep 2018 15:42:54 -0000      1.46
@@ -563,13 +563,9 @@
 Digital Restrictions Management, and they both have back doors.</p>
 
 <p>In the case of the Kindle, the only way you can buy a book is to
-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>
+buy it from Amazon<a href="#footnote4">[4]</a>, and Amazon requires
+you to identify yourself, so they know everything that you've
+bought.</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
@@ -969,6 +965,11 @@
 <br />
 The New Zealand government subsequently implemented the punishment
 scheme more or less as originally planned.</li>
+<li id="footnote4">That was true at the time.  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.</li>
 </ol>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
@@ -1028,7 +1029,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2018/09/16 15:38:56 $
+$Date: 2018/09/16 15:42:54 $
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 </p>
 </div>