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Amazon Remotely Deletes Purchased Copies of Books From Thousands of Kindles

http://gizmodo.com

Apparently, the publisher [Amazon] changed its mind about having electronic versions of Orwell's books. So Amazon removed them from the store and in the process remotely deleted the books from the Kindles of anyone who bought them, depositing a refund in their account in the process.

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Created by akf 14 years 39 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 39 weeks ago
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HTML5 & Ogg Theora

http://my.opera.com

This whole html tag ordeal is getting out of hand. If we look at the image tag it supports jpeg, png, gif and probably more although I've not tried any others. I wonder how drastic that decision must have been when made ? But seriously as it is now if I don't have the correct plugin both opera & firefox help out if possible.

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Created by klhrevolution 14 years 40 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 40 weeks ago
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The right to be free

http://polishlinux.org

Everybody knows, that DRM is bad. Also everybody knows, that Open Source is just a compromise and a stage in transition to a close-to-ideal system, which Free Software is. However let’s try to look at the other side of the coin.

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No, Amazon did not release all of the Swindle's source code

http://www.fsf.org

It was unfortunately reported yesterday by a number of sources that Amazon had released the source code for the software running on the Kindle DX.
This isn’t all of the Kindle source code. It’s a selection released in order to comply with the license requirements of the code originally written by other people (like the GNU Project) which Amazon modified for its own purposes.

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Created by akf 14 years 43 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 43 weeks ago
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Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all

http://arstechnica.com

A UK researcher has spent years interviewing people about whether DRM has affected their ability to use content in ways ordinarily protected by the law. Surprise! It has, even leading one sight-impaired woman to piracy.

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Created by peacemaker 14 years 44 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 44 weeks ago
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DRM Hell

http://www.linuxjournal.com

At the beginning of this year, several people at Linux Journal and elsewhere, took a pledge to be DRM free. This pledge focuses on Digital Rights Management as applied to music, but there are a number of other areas where DRM is also applied.

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Created by bollezza 14 years 48 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 48 weeks ago
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The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits

http://torrentfreak.com

"In one of RIAA’s high profile cases the Free Software Foundation backed defendant Joel Tenenbaum, much to the dislike of the music industry lobby. John Sullivan, Operations Manager at the FSF explains in a guest post why they think these cases impact not just music, but also free software and its technology..."

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The Kindness of strangers can defeat Proprietary Cloud Computing. Free Software Solutions

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Fashion is fickle. One day thin clients and clusters are the fashion de jour, the next it's Web 2.0, Virtualisation or distributed computing and Grids. They who live by the sword of fashion will surely perish by it but a new model has been strutting its stuff along the catwalk of web fashion and she goes by the name of Cloud Computing.

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Impeach Bezos for Amazon's Kindle Swindle

http://www.defectivebydesign.org

Inspired by Seinfeld, DefectiveByDesign is "impeaching" Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to drop DRM on the Kindle.

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Created by johnsu01 15 years 2 days ago – Made popular 15 years 2 days ago
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drmfree tag endorsed by DefectiveByDesign.org—a project of the Free Software Foundation

http://www.teleread.org

"Stephen Windwalker and I urged fellow authors to tag qualifying works as drmfree at Amazon—and readers to do the same. Use the tag at other stores, too. Now the drmfree campaign has won the endorsement of DefectiveByDesign.org, a project of the Free Software Foundation..."

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Created by can.axis 15 years 3 days ago – Made popular 15 years 3 days ago
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DRM and the Nintendo DSi

http://www.epsilon.hlgamers.com

"It’s rare that people are familiar with both free software and gaming, so I feel I ought to offer my opinion here. Everyone knows that Nintendo has been shouting about its “new” handheld console. With not one but two shiny new cameras, larger screens and hopefully better batteries than the DS Lite, what’s not to like about the DSi? ..."

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Nintendo DSi: Defective by DESiGN.

http://www.defectivebydesign.org

"In November, Nintendo released the DSi console in Japan. Next month, the rest of the world will be hit by this console. Similar to the previous Nintendo DS and DS Lite consoles, the DSi has two screens and the ability to access WiFi networks.

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Stating the Case Against DRM to the FTC

http://www.eff.org

Wednesday, EFF Staff Attorney Corynne McSherry will be testifying at the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) town hall meeting on digital rights management technologies, or DRM.

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Created by peacemaker 15 years 2 weeks ago – Made popular 15 years 2 weeks ago
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DRM is Dead / Long Live DRM: A Call for Transparency in the Emerald City

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com

Reading Prof. Felten's post on "DRM in Retreat" earlier this year might have led one to believe that DRM was getting ready to take a long walk off a short pier wearing concrete shoes. However, the DRM town hall meeting hosted by the Federal Trade Commission this week in Seattle quickly disabused all in attendance of such a notion.

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Created by Noog 15 years 3 weeks ago – Made popular 15 years 2 weeks ago
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Amazon’s Linux-powered and DRM-laden Gadget Sued for Patent Infringement

http://boycottnovell.com

Amazon sued for using DRM .

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