'Kindle Swindle' Declared

The DRM freedom fighters at the Free Software Foundation have set their sights on the Kindle, finding Amazon guilty of hypocrisy, legal treachery and worse through the gimpy design of the curious e-book reader. They point to a particularly torturous portion of the Kindle user agreement that essentially grants Amazon near-total oversight on how you […]

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The DRM freedom fighters at the Free Software Foundation have set their sights on the Kindle, finding Amazon guilty of hypocrisy, legal treachery and worse through the gimpy design of the curious e-book reader. They point to a particularly torturous portion of the Kindle user agreement that essentially grants Amazon near-total oversight on how you get to use a book:

You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.

Henceforth, the foundation's Defective By Design watchdogs are referring to the device as "Swindle" and encouraging supporters to decorate all Kindle-related pages with "Kindle Swindle." And spare a moment to consider where we'd be, intellect-wise, if sharing, distribution and resale of printed matter had been subject to such restrictions from the get-go.

The Kindle Swindle [Defective By Design]