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Commented on Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?
IAMAL but Amazon's legal theory is probably that the copyrighted work one is gaining access to is the reader software running on the Kindle, not the books. It kind of sucks, but that's what you get for buying a 'point...
Commented on Conan copyright trolls censor fan-readings of public domain stories
MAGICIAN @57 Clearly they are making threats. These threats are all the more chilling (in the sense of coercing self censorship) for being veiled and also due to the lack of clarity in what the actual legal position is re...
Commented on Conan copyright trolls censor fan-readings of public domain stories
can it be so simple? Ha!...
Commented on Conan copyright trolls censor fan-readings of public domain stories
This has been bothering me. What really irks me is that Paradox Entertainment's actions against an unsupported Broken Seas have the effect of stealing the public domain works from 6,400 million people in order to avoid the prospect of copyright...
Commented on Conan copyright trolls censor fan-readings of public domain stories
I have not been able to find any good information on what the law actually is in these kinds of cases. I cannot find any case law where the various legal theories have been tested. Imagine a work that is...
Commented on Vmedia wants to sell you mini-disc-alikes for your netbook... and, of course, the drives
Is it a DRM play of some kind?...
Commented on Comprehensive excoriation of ebook stupidity
I read in bed on my phone all time, and extensively. It's nice to be snuggled up with the lights out, rather than sitting in the living room or something. When you are tired, just close the phone and your...
Commented on Comprehensive excoriation of ebook stupidity
#22 tomrigid: I guess my personal experience has been different, I actually like the 'book in cwllphone' better than a paperback. The text on the phone is no smaller than in a book - there are just 'more smaller pages'...
Commented on Comprehensive excoriation of ebook stupidity
Reading a book on an iPhone? Really? A few years of that and I'll need a haptic braille reader. Or something. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it. Just a regular cell phone is all you need. As MadeByMarkSays...
Commented on Lessig: YouTube takedown shows why fair use isn't enough
Lessig is contending that "This is an amateur remix of popular culture. It should be completely exempt from copyright restrictions.". His view is that copyright law has to be changed to accommodate uses like the video in question. I think...
Commented on Robert J. Shea's SHIKE released with CC
These two works are also available at http://www.booksinmyphone.com packages up to run in regular cell phones - so you don't need to be tied to the computer to read them....
Commented on False copyright claims are a lucrative business for sleazoids
This is a good FAQ http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/faq.cgi They list 7 exceptions to the anit-circumvention laws: * Libraries, archives, and educational institutions for acquisition purposes; [1201(d)] * Law enforcement and intelligence gathering activities; [1201(e)] * Reverse engineering in order to develop interoperable...
Commented on False copyright claims are a lucrative business for sleazoids
IANAL but I don't think spell checking, or spell correcting, or even miss-spelling is enough to make a new 'work' from a copyright perspective regardless of the 'effort' it took. I believe there has to be substantial creative transformation before...
Commented on Amazon Kindle: the Web makes Amazon go bad crazy
YAMARA, they might be going for the sense of fire in this Thomas Jefferson quote: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of a thinking power called an...
Commented on CC science fiction novel on the iPhone
Also available (along with many others) for those encumered by a regular 'dumb' java enabled phone at http://www.booksinmyphone.com . 0xdeadbeef - I don't know why but phones seem to be built/sold with weird limitations - like only four short memos....

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gd23 commented on Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?
Cory's been taking the Jon Stewart Diploma in schooling....
hohum commented on Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?
I completely agree with Lynninca @4, there's no DRM circumvention going on here... All kindlepid.py does is allow you to find your PID number so that you can buy DRMed content from other sources. It's still DRM, still locked to your device, and as Lynninca said, if you -were- circumventing anybody's DRM, it would be the other provider that you're buying from... Not Amazon's. Additionally, it must be a very fringe group of users... It's a python script, meaning that you have to know your way around whatever CLI you're using, you have to know what python is, you have...
Dewi Morgan commented on Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?
Personally I found the heavy Apple weighting over on BBG rather tiresome, though it seems to have died down a bit lately. My main issue was what I saw as a conflict between the Apple fluff-pieces and the more important DRM-and-freedom pieces: these are things for which Apple does not stand. I've never found DRM posts bad. They're the best bit, for me. Largely because of these posts at BB, I've done things like contact my MPs, bought ORG memberships for myself and my fiancee, written to companies to explain why I bought a different product, and so forth. Post...
denkbert commented on Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?
Streisand effect, anyone? You'd think that most companies should've understood by now that trying to get something out of the web just has the opposite effect ... The "professional" eBook business is still in its infancy - and if they do not learn from the past mistakes of the MI and FI, they're just bound to hopelessly repeat those mistakes. And in contrast to the early napster-ish issues, P2P technology isn't limited to geeks and computer-savant people anymore....
gulo gulo commented on Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?
"you shouldn't complain about this because it's been this way for a long time" / "love it or leave it" doesn't work though because this is otherwise a really great blog; it's the only non music blog i read and a lot of the weird focuses (diy tech, ukeleles) are endlessly cool. however as a political issue - even within the realm of tech related political issues - drm is at best a small part of a larger problem and at worst an issue that only affects those above a certain threshold of priveledge...

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