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Many books were "given away" (forced) and burnt in fires at Reichskristallnacht Nov 1938: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by frik 11y ago
Many books were "given away" (forced) and burnt in fires at Reichskristallnacht Nov 1938: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
Many thousands years old historic books, papyrus papers were destroyed amd vanished forever.
- jacquesm 11y agoThe future dystopian version of that: you wake up one morning to find out that all your e-books have self destructed based on a remote command embedded in your reader that would otherwise allow a retraction by the publisher. http://www.wired.com/2012/10/amazons-remote-wipe-of-customers-kindle-highlights-perils-of-drm/ http://www.wired.com/2012/10/amazons-remote-wipe-of-customer...
- EliRivers 11y agoThat's the present dystopia. The future dystopia is that off-message books get censored and rewritten on your device without you ever knowing.. or is that also the present dystopia? :)