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The Great Library of Amazonia

Posted by Zonk on from the like-powells-only-virtual dept.

theodp writes "Amazon had a dream. To bring the world a modern-day Library of Alexandria. Apparently they had a second dream. To own the patents on it. Interestingly, fears of lost cookbook and reference text sales voiced by the Author's Guild are echoed in Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's patent application for the Suppression of features in digital images of content and a9.com CEO Udi Manber's follow up Access to electronic images of text based on user ownership of corresponding physical text, which discuss how one might block content from viewers who have no proof-of-purchase for a book on file with booksellers."

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  1. Oh god, here come the zealots by Dancin_Santa · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Who wants to be first to post the completely irrelevant "Right to Read" story by fellow bearded person RMS?

    Look, you can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you might just find that you get what you need.

  2. Kiss Public Domain's Ass Good-Bye by PortHaven · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please, give me one good reason "and it's the law is not a good reason" why we should respect copyright's anymore?

    The copyright holders no longer respect the copyrights. We the people granted them a short term exclusive right to profit by said work. (Thoughts and ideas can NOT be owned.)

    Now, the people never get to enjoy them....screw'em!

  3. There is an easy way to stop this amazon patent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    STOP SHOPPING THERE!!!!
    I moved to BN a while back and have never looked back.
    Why don't the rest of you do the same?

  4. I could say the same thing about Clinton & AlQ by HBI · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    He ignored the threat and his instruments of policy reassured us that lobbing missiles at aspirin factories would solve the problem. He minimized the 1993 WTC bombing, the Cole bombing and the Khobar Towers bombings and failed to link the embassy bombings in E. Africa with the true culprit. Arguably, this negligence cost 2500 lives on 9/11.

    Then, his National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, starts shoving classified documents down his pants at the National Archives and stealing them, with a clear intent to alter the historical record in this regard.

    Stop it with your political axe-grinding. Freaking leftists think they are the arbiters of truth and justice. Your side is at least as full of shit as the Republicans, and probably more.

    --
    HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
  5. 9/11 was personal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sept 11 was a personal attack against the Bush family because of their dealings with the Saudi Government.