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Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words
theodp writes "To exist or not to exist: that is the query. That's what the famous Hamlet soliloquy might look like if subjected to Amazon's newly-patented System and Method for Marking Content, which calls for 'programmatically substituting synonyms into distributed text content,' including 'books, short stories, product reviews, book or movie reviews, news articles, editorial articles, technical papers, scholastic papers, and so on' in an effort to uniquely identify customers who redistribute material. In its description of the 'invention,' Amazon also touts the use of 'alternative misspellings for selected words' as a way to provide 'evidence of copyright infringement in a legal action.' After all, anti-piracy measures should trump kids' ability to spell correctly, shouldn't they?"
Now Tom Sawyer wont have nigger in it. Unless you want it too. And Lolita will be 'just' 18. So you can watch it legally. Lets all change words to be more acceptable to the audience right? I mean 'What fools these Mortals be' is the same as "ppl r dumb' right?
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Al Franken is a big fat liar who uses lies to lie. Or something like that.