Re:Google's software mistreats or harms the user
by zeveb on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:15AM
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> What am I missing?
Amazon can — and have — reach into your Kindle and delete books you have there (notably, they did this to 1984, proving that real life can be ironic).
You cannot lend one Kindle book to someone else, without lending the entire Kindle.
Your phone, computer and TV run binary code which can do literally anything (say, logging your passwords and transmitting them in unused protocol headers), which you are not permitted to remove or modify, in the name of DRM and similar user-restricting technologies.
I've been reading a lot recently, and so buying a lot of books. Some digital, some not. As far as I can tell I own a single copy of the physical ones. I can transfer them to someone by handing them my copy. I can do the same with digital ones. It's legal for other people to read my paperback, or for me to hand them my Kindle. I can even, get this, do stuff to the mobi file I get when I download the ebook.
What am I missing?