5 ms·
1. Shouldn’t it be possible to argue that consumers specifically bought a particular revision of a book and don’t want any new revision? 2. Better yet, shouldn
by k_sze 4y ago
1. Shouldn’t it be possible to argue that consumers specifically bought a particular revision of a book and don’t want any new revision?
2. Better yet, shouldn’t we just have a system where consumers have access to all revisions of a book? We’re talking about digital records, not physical books that need to be printed and shipped, after all.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoWhen you buy an ebook, what are you actually buying?
- can16358p 4y agoNothing. Or perhaps "buying the ability to access the book, where the provider can alter/censor/revoke any time without prior notice" if we really want to use the word "buy".
- smsm42 4y agoA privilege to temporarily view the content on devices that the seller approves, as long as they approve. This privilege can be revoked at any time, including for reasons having nothing to do with you (such as the seller having a fight with the copyright holder), and the content can be modified or removed at any moment. And you pay for that more than for the paper copy, because it sucks to be a sucker.
- nhchris 4y ago> a system where consumers have access to all revisions of a book A key component of censorship or falsification is hiding the fact that it even takes place. They are tools of deception, and if you tell people exactly how you are deceiving them, it is no longer effective.
- teolandon 4y agoWell they're doing a bad job at that then, since everyone knows that this is happening.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoThis is nothing. In a few years kids and their parents won't even think to ask if their book is legit, let alone know that it isn't. Most people don't even know it right now. By the numbers, essentially no one even knows this just happend. Go ask the next 100 people you see.
- WeylandYutani 4y agoYep. How many people read patch notes?
- inglor_cz 4y agoNow, yes, but if some other tech giant like Google decides to remove all mentions of the incident from their search engine, most people in 2040 will no longer know that something like that happened. Look no further than China and their systematic scrubbing of the Tien-an-men massacre from history.
- fidgewidge 4y agoNo need for hypotheticals. Google heavily edits searches for ideological reasons already and most people have no idea it's happening.
- paxys 4y ago> Shouldn’t it be possible to argue that consumers specifically bought a particular revision Except they didn't. They licensed a copy of the book, and that license was revocable or changeable at any time. It's all there in the 175 page agreement they were forced to sign before the purchase went through. Consumers lost the digital ownership battle a long time ago.
- Aerroon 4y agoDoes the button to buy say "license" or "buy"?
- paxys 4y agoSure sue them and go argue about it in court. There's already multiple decades worth of precedence against you in the matter.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoBuy...a license.
- account42 4y agoBuying a license is what you do when you hire a legal firm to draft you one. Not when you click "Buy" on a Kindle E-Book on Amazon.
- pnt12 4y agoI wholeheartedly agree: don't say something in the UI and the opposite in the ToS. I can slightly sympathize that digital media may have different rules than physical, but some are just misleading.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoIt's all perfectly possible but it offends the copyright monopolists who want total and absolute control over everything so anyone "purchasing" books is stuck in this "you own nothing" hellscape.