Holmes sez, “After Jeff Bezos’s public apology for the remote deletion of books, Amazon still has total control over peoples’ virtual libraries– a kind of control that has no place in a free society.
The Free Software Foundation is calling them out, joining with readers, academics, librarians and authors (including Lawrence Lessig, Clay Shirky and BB’s own Cory Doctorow) in a petition against Amazon’s ebook DRM.
The petition opens: ‘We believe in a way of life based on the free exchange of ideas, in which books have and will continue to play a central role. Devices like Amazon’s are trying to determine how people will interact with books, but Amazon’s use of DRM to control and monitor users and their books constitutes a clear threat to the free exchange of ideas.'”
We believe in the freedom to read
(Thanks, Holmes!)
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