X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/3614ecc9830b6fcb0ff2241ff9d2678db9ad9ae2..0f2c45fda2387a506fe9da3ae9d73fcb7c31d927:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 886f780b8e..bfbcec07ca 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -47,6 +47,22 @@ books), <a href="http://runeberg.org/">Project Runenberg</a&g books) and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/texts">The Internet Archive</a> (3,641,797 books) have heaps of books without DRM, which can read by anyone and shared with anyone.</p> + +<p>Update 2012-10-23: This story broke in the morning on Monday. In +the evening after the story had spread all across the Internet, Amazon +restored the account of the user, as reported by +<a href="http://www.digi.no/904675/helomvending-fra-amazon">digi.no</a> +and <a href="http://nrk.no/kultur-og-underholdning/1.8368487">NRK</a>. +Apparently public pressure work. The story from Martin have seen +several twitter messages per minute the last 24 hours, which is quite +a lot, and is still drawing a lot of attention. But even when the +account is restored, the fundamental problem still exist. I recommend +reading two opinions from +<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/10/rights-you-have-no-right-to-your-ebooks/index.htm">Simon +Phipps</a> and +<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/10/is-amazon-playing-fair/index.htm">Glen +Moody</a> if you want to learn more about the fundamentals and more +details about the original story.</p>