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An Acerbic Look At the Future of Reading

Posted by kdawson on from the drm-weaver dept.

theodp writes "Using Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' own words against him, Mark Pilgrim offers his chilling take on The Future of Reading with a mash-up of Bezos' Open Letter to the Authors Guild, the Amazon Kindle Terms of Service, Steven Levy's Newsweek article on the Kindle, 1984, and Richard Stallman's 'The Right to Read.'"

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  1. Re:Is this really news? by sgt_doom · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jeff Bezos.....Jeff Bezos...? Oh yeah...he's the guy who imports all those foreign replacement workers to take the place of American workers.....what's that place....Oh yeah....the Amazon Con....(Buy a book from The Amazon Con and help support stupid Punjabis.....)

  2. Re:Is this really news? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only thing that "got us here" is the ridiculous notion that rebellion is something original.

    Have your silly revolution. NOTHING will change in the long run, nor even in the short run.

    "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Dick Cheney? Is that you?
    --
    My blog
  3. Re:Is this really a reply to the first post? by MrHanky · · Score: 0, Troll

    And is it really on topic?

  4. Re:WTF? That's incredibly stupid! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your wife sounds like a dim bulb =( That's okay. If I ever get married, I definitely don't want her to be smarter than I am. Since I am not that bright, I need a dim bulb as well.

    Thank goodness we have a comfortable couch ;)

    For lovemaking? My couch is nice, too.

  5. Re:Yes, it is. by MrHanky · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's mainly about DRM, you're writing about copyright. And no, your reply wasn't a reply to the first post, but you chose to ignore that part (the subject line) of my comment. What I'm getting at is that your comment is a boilerplate "insightful" comment, and that karma whoring is gay.