But did RMS offered some technological solutions regarding solving those pain points? The article sounds as if Amazon was the culprit here, but imho Amazon needs to comply with what publishers wants, and also to protect copyright rights of the authors.
Re:The Danger of E-Books
by dredmorbius on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:44PM
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RMS typically calls out an leading exemplar of a specific problem. In the case of eBooks, that would be Amazon.
And yes, he does offer specific technical alternatives.
Amazon's been large enough to exert its will on publishers before.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/05/amazon-m...
Access and transferability are only two rights specified.
Anonymity, open formats, and freedom from arbitrary withdrawal of the book (Amazon famously exercised this capability on 1984 of all titles) are other factors.
And don't underestimate power of law. The computer software industry has long used rampant piracy of their products, often tacitly encouraged, as a lever to squeeze users for as much revenue as possible, under colour of law. That's only one of several such applications of this particular lever.
RMS has been, and continues to be, highly prescient on virtually all areas of free access to information, software or otherwise.