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Therese Godefroy |
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www/philosophy copyright-versus-community.html ... |
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Date: |
Sun, 19 May 2019 12:30:57 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/05/19 12:30:56
Modified files:
philosophy : copyright-versus-community.html
digital-inclusion-in-freedom.html
free-digital-society.html
freedom-or-copyright.html ough-interview.html
right-to-read.html rms-aj.html
rms-on-radio-nz.html the-danger-of-ebooks.html
the-root-of-this-problem.html
Log message:
Link to why-call-it-the-swindle.html (RT #1383190).
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.48&r2=1.49
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/digital-inclusion-in-freedom.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.43&r2=1.44
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/free-digital-society.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.30&r2=1.31
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.60&r2=1.61
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/ough-interview.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.9&r2=1.10
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/right-to-read.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.108&r2=1.109
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/rms-aj.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.11&r2=1.12
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/rms-on-radio-nz.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.19&r2=1.20
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.27&r2=1.28
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/the-root-of-this-problem.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.27&r2=1.28
Patches:
Index: copyright-versus-community.html
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--- copyright-versus-community.html 15 Dec 2018 14:02:38 -0000 1.48
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@@ -553,7 +553,9 @@
<p>Now they're upon us. Things like the Sony Shreader (its official
name is the Sony Reader, but if you put on 'sh' it explains what it's
-designed to do to your books), and the Amazon Swindle, designed to
+designed to do to your books), and the <a
+href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Amazon Swindle</a>,
+designed to
swindle you out of your traditional freedoms without your noticing.
Of course, they call it the Kindle which is what it's going to do to
your books.</p>
@@ -1029,7 +1031,7 @@
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@@ -508,7 +508,9 @@
with cash—you can only buy an e-book with a credit card, thus
enabling computerized surveillance—and public libraries become
retail outlets. That is the world the publishers want for us. If you
-buy the Amazon Kindle (we call it the Swindle) or the Sony Reader (we
+buy the Amazon Kindle (we call it the <a
+href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Swindle</a>)
+or the Sony Reader (we
call it the Shreader for what it threatens to do to books), you pay to
establish that world.</p>
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@@ -60,8 +60,9 @@
server, data about the use of the computer. A surveillance feature was
discovered in the iPhone a few months ago, and people started calling it
the “spy-phone.” Flash player has a surveillance feature
-too, and so does the Amazon “Swindle.” They call it the
-Kindle, but I call it “the Swindle,” <em>l'escroc</em>,
+too, and so does the Amazon Swindle.” They call it the Kindle, but
+I call it “<a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">the
+Swindle</a>,” <em>l'escroc</em>,
because it's meant to swindle users out of their freedom. It makes
people identify themselves whenever they buy a book, and that means
Amazon has a giant list of all the books each user has read. Such a list
@@ -1128,7 +1129,7 @@
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--- freedom-or-copyright.html 12 Apr 2014 12:40:06 -0000 1.60
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@@ -84,7 +84,9 @@
chance to read without paying. No more purchasing a book anonymously with
cash—you can only buy an e-book with a credit card. That is
the world the publishers want to impose on us. If you buy the Amazon
-Kindle (we call it the Swindle) or the Sony Reader (we
+Kindle (we call it <a
+href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">the Swindle</a>)
+or the Sony Reader (we
call it the Shreader for what it threatens to do to books), you pay to
establish that world.</p>
@@ -226,7 +228,7 @@
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@@ -631,7 +631,9 @@
<dd>
<p>These are attacks on the traditional freedoms of readers. The
-example I would use is the Amazon “swindle” (a play on words
+example I would use is the Amazon “<a
+href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Swindle</a>”
+(a play on words
on Amazon's e-book tablet, the “Kindle”) because that's the
one I know the most facts about. I call it the “swindle”
because it is set up so that it swindles readers out of the traditional
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--- right-to-read.html 19 May 2019 16:26:04 -0000 1.108
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@@ -406,7 +406,9 @@
<p>Today's commercial
e-books <a href="/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html"> abolish
readers' traditional freedoms</a>. Amazon's e-book reader product,
-which I call the “Amazon Swindle” because it's designed to
+which I call the “<a
+href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Amazon
+Swindle</a>” because it's designed to
swindle readers out of the traditional freedoms of readers of books,
is run by software with several
demonstrated <a href="/proprietary/malware-kindle-swindle.html">Orwellian
@@ -538,7 +540,7 @@
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@@ -413,8 +413,8 @@
<dd>Right. Someone wrote they used up a year's supply of irony
demonstrating the Orwellian nature of their product, which they call the
-Kindle because it's designed to burn our books. But they demonstrated it
-by deleting Orwell's book.</dd>
+Kindle because it's designed to burn our books [<a href="#f1">1</a>].
+But they demonstrated it by deleting Orwell's book.</dd>
<dt>AJ</dt>
@@ -689,6 +689,15 @@
<dd>Yeah, thanks for being with us.</dd>
</dl>
+<div class="thin"></div>
+
+<h3 style="font-size: 1.2em">Footnote</h3>
+<ol>
+ <li id="f1">[2019] We call it <a
+href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">the Swindle</a>
+because it's designed to swindle readers out of the freedoms they have
+with traditional books.</li>
+</ol>
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@@ -747,7 +756,7 @@
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@@ -846,7 +846,7 @@
in that?”, “how is it designed to restrict what you can
do?”. And these products are very malicious, for instance there
is the Amazon Kindle, it's an e-book reader, and they call it the
-Kindle to express what it's designed to do to our books.</dd>
+Kindle to express what it's designed to do to our books [<a
href="#f1">1</a>].</dd>
<dt>KH</dt>
<dd>That's not true :-)</dd>
@@ -960,6 +960,15 @@
<dd>And we may well look at that law in a couple or three weeks
time.</dd>
</dl>
+<hr class="thin" />
+
+<h3 style="font-size: 1.2em">Footnotes</h3>
+<ol>
+ <li id="f1">[2019] We call it <a
+href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">the Swindle</a>
+because it's designed to swindle readers out of the freedoms they have
+with traditional books.</li>
+</ol>
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--- the-danger-of-ebooks.html 18 Nov 2016 06:31:39 -0000 1.27
+++ the-danger-of-ebooks.html 19 May 2019 16:30:56 -0000 1.28
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
</ul>
<p>Even one of these infringements makes e-books a step backward from
-printed books. We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom.</p>
+printed books. We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom [<a
href="#footnote2">2</a>].</p>
<p>The e-book companies say denying our traditional freedoms is
necessary to continue to pay authors. The current copyright system
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@
and <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.html";>my
2012 open letter to the President of the Brazilian Senate</a>, Senator
José Sarney, for more on this.</li>
+<li id="footnote2">[2019] To show our rejection of Amazon's e-book reader,
+we call it <a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">the
+Swindle</a>.</li>
</ol>
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@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@
is no better than when Microsoft remotely sabotages Vista. The TiVo is
designed to enforce restrictions on access to the recordings you make,
and reports what you watch. E-book readers such as the Amazon
-“Swindle” are designed to stop you from sharing and lending your
+“<a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle">Swindle</a>”
+are designed to stop you from sharing and lending your
books. Features that artificially obstruct use of your data are known
as Digital Restrictions Management (DRM); our protest campaign against
DRM is hosted
@@ -209,7 +210,7 @@
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- www/philosophy copyright-versus-community.html ...,
Therese Godefroy <=