Recall the "Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm" in July 2009? https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
That was the hint of what ebook control would be like.
Now we see the reality of just what control the operating system provider has over ebooks in 2019:)
Push the ads deep into the OS, the browser and then stop all attempts at ad blocking.
Every ads counts to pay for wage virtue signalling.
How about putting that money to making a new search engine that works without de ranking results?
In the USA you have the freedom from big gov to share, comment on and publish your ideas.
In the USA you have the right to talk about code, crypto, science, math, DRM, science, the arts, politics.
France should send a new Alexis de Tocqueville to the free USA to bring back some ideas on freedom of the press and freedom after publication.
Under the EU and in France the ability to read, comment and publish is something that is controlled and only granted to some people.
Enjoy the US freedom to publish, self publish, comment, link, talk about, critique. To review and put own your own theory.
Free from brands, gov, mil, NGOs, the politics of educational institution, the EU, a French gov and think tanks.
And yet the ebooks people expected to use are now gone.
The problem is the ebook, the DRM, the OS.
Who wants to risk an OS and brand that will remove digital content?
In the USA a person had the freedom to consider a SUV.
An electric car. A classic car. A new car. An older car that had been sold.
Transport at a fair price for working people. People who needed a SUV. People who wanted a SUV. Not buying a SUV and finding a different car.
A car for work. A car to get to work. A car to travel all over the USA.
Not altering the price by using a tax rate to force people into only having the ability to pay for a new electric car.
Then the free would would have missed out on so many amazing and useful products and services.
Oil provides so many products and services all over the world every day.
Now one gov is using a tax to shape the spending of its citizens.
What will the gov like to alter next? Housing? Banking? Employment? More tax again?
You don't own anything in the digital world.
Stop renting and look for real books nobody can remove.
Invest in real paper books and enjoy reading.
Music next?
Games next?
of working for an ad company that really wants to support Communist China?
Preventing ad blocking in a browser.
Ensuing a search engine for Communist China won't find words and terms.
Job creation since the 1950's.
Will AI outsmart humans?
AI as sold will give humans a list of options set by other humans.
Using the term AI as a cover story for their political ideas.
An "AI" sold as a prophetic, smart will just be a list of its human input with hidden political views.
That tax was a persons wage and savings. Money they could have put to some other use before a gov made them by a more expensive new electric car.
Govs shaping free market forces using a new tax.
In the USA the product sold has to still pay for its own costs under the free market.
No gov intervention with a "car" to shape the buying of a new car. The cost of keeping an older car.
The freedom to enjoy any car. At any price. Not what is set by a new tax.
Well done at the tax rate. Thats all that happened. A huge new tax on non electric car sales.
Making the population to have to save up and get an electric car. Pay a huge new tax on a non electric car.
That will slow all growth in Canada.
A huge new tax to pay for a universal basic income. Tax everything.
A new extra carbon tax on anything productive.
Canada will soon slow down its productive human factor.
New taxes will slow global warming and climate change all over Canada.
Make Canada average again.
1. Have text chat.
2. Have webcam.
3. Have voice chat.
4. Have file sending.
5. Have chatrooms.
Everyone would have wanted to be on Google for "free" with the ads.
Their user name a key to voice, cam, txt and file fun.
Should have kept working on it and sold it to consumers for "free".
Slashdot Mirror
Re 'People just need to insist on ownership. " :)
That worked out well when paying for ebooks
Removing DRM is not allowed.
Re "Quite correct the digital distribution method is generally fine."
Until the ebooks are gone in the real world .
Recall the "Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm" in July 2009? :)
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
That was the hint of what ebook control would be like.
Now we see the reality of just what control the operating system provider has over ebooks in 2019
Push the ads deep into the OS, the browser and then stop all attempts at ad blocking.
Every ads counts to pay for wage virtue signalling.
How about putting that money to making a new search engine that works without de ranking results?
In the USA you have the freedom from big gov to share, comment on and publish your ideas.
In the USA you have the right to talk about code, crypto, science, math, DRM, science, the arts, politics.
France should send a new Alexis de Tocqueville to the free USA to bring back some ideas on freedom of the press and freedom after publication.
Under the EU and in France the ability to read, comment and publish is something that is controlled and only granted to some people.
Enjoy the US freedom to publish, self publish, comment, link, talk about, critique. To review and put own your own theory.
Free from brands, gov, mil, NGOs, the politics of educational institution, the EU, a French gov and think tanks.
And yet the ebooks people expected to use are now gone.
The problem is the ebook, the DRM, the OS.
Who wants to risk an OS and brand that will remove digital content?
In the USA a person had the freedom to consider a SUV. An electric car. A classic car. A new car. An older car that had been sold.
Transport at a fair price for working people. People who needed a SUV. People who wanted a SUV. Not buying a SUV and finding a different car.
A car for work. A car to get to work. A car to travel all over the USA.
Not altering the price by using a tax rate to force people into only having the ability to pay for a new electric car.
Then the free would would have missed out on so many amazing and useful products and services.
Oil provides so many products and services all over the world every day.
Now one gov is using a tax to shape the spending of its citizens.
What will the gov like to alter next? Housing? Banking? Employment? More tax again?
You don't own anything in the digital world.
Stop renting and look for real books nobody can remove.
Invest in real paper books and enjoy reading.
Music next?
Games next?
of working for an ad company that really wants to support Communist China?
Preventing ad blocking in a browser.
Ensuing a search engine for Communist China won't find words and terms.
Job creation since the 1950's.
Will AI outsmart humans?
AI as sold will give humans a list of options set by other humans.
Using the term AI as a cover story for their political ideas.
An "AI" sold as a prophetic, smart will just be a list of its human input with hidden political views.
and the ability to publish is not toxic content.
That tax was a persons wage and savings. Money they could have put to some other use before a gov made them by a more expensive new electric car.
Govs shaping free market forces using a new tax.
Paying for a more expensive car is taking money away from working people. Demanding they buy a new electric car for transport.
In the USA the product sold has to still pay for its own costs under the free market.
No gov intervention with a "car" to shape the buying of a new car. The cost of keeping an older car.
The freedom to enjoy any car. At any price. Not what is set by a new tax.
A tax will do that.
Yes a AC a huge new tax to sway the population to have to pay for a new electric car.
Well done at the tax rate. Thats all that happened. A huge new tax on non electric car sales.
Making the population to have to save up and get an electric car. Pay a huge new tax on a non electric car.
Now Taiwan is free.
That will slow all growth in Canada.
A huge new tax to pay for a universal basic income. Tax everything.
A new extra carbon tax on anything productive.
Canada will soon slow down its productive human factor.
New taxes will slow global warming and climate change all over Canada.
Make Canada average again.
The real China where people are free to read and talk about:
1984, Animal Farm.
Books from South Korea and Japan.
Books with cartoon bears.
But the new games look so nice and run well.
Who take all their NSA tax payers skills with them and sell out to random nations.
1. Have text chat.
2. Have webcam.
3. Have voice chat.
4. Have file sending.
5. Have chatrooms.
Everyone would have wanted to be on Google for "free" with the ads.
Their user name a key to voice, cam, txt and file fun.
Should have kept working on it and sold it to consumers for "free".