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Penguin Yanking Kindle Books From Libraries

Posted by Unknown on from the every-time-you-share-jesus-kills-a-kitten dept.

New submitter moniker writes "Penguin Group is removing Kindle ebooks from libraries using Overdrive citing 'security concerns' as a weak excuse, while most likely taking a shot at Amazon. One more example of DRM being about protecting business models, not content."

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  1. Re:If Everything was "security"? by swalve · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's a kind of stealing though.

  2. Re:Where's the evidence? by Burz · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let me answer your questions with some questions of my own...

    Everyone knows that the government is simply eating out of Big Corporation's wallet, right? How do they know this?

    Have you been living under a rock? Or are you seeking a reputation as an astroturfer?

    Corruption by moneyed interests is a recurring theme here on Slashdot and many other sites, and much of that posting references hard news. Then again Slashdot is hardly the epicenter of concern for corruption on the web. So I suggest you try your strangely abstract (to put it kindly) arguments on a site like propublica.org or groklaw.net instead (and see how long your arguments last).

    Thank you for lending your professional anti-anti-corruption input on this matter. It has reminded me that the atmosphere needs more CO2 to promote life and that second hand smoke is a figment of the imagination.

    Have a nice day :)