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>Amazon Now Openly Discloses You’re Buying a License to View Kindle eBooks "disclosure" of information sounds like a good thing, but in terms of contracts, "a
by fsckboy 2y ago
>Amazon Now Openly Discloses You’re Buying a License to View Kindle eBooks
"disclosure" of information sounds like a good thing, but in terms of contracts, "a disclosure" is actually "a restriction/limitation" that you are agreeing to. This is Amazon "disclosing" that it is you who is not actually buying a copy of something.
Yes, it's better for you that limitations are disclosed, but the salient point is the limitation, not the disclosure.
- andybak 2y agoAt least it creates a situation where any vendor that does offer "true" purchases will stand out. There's a chance for disruption here.
- izzydata 2y agoWhat would a true purchase of digital content look like? Just the lack of DRM? You could still lose your copy and the company you purchased it from could no longer exist.
- tredre3 2y agoJust like you could lose a physical book or the publisher could disappear? It feels like you're doing some reductio ad absurdum right now... You buy a digital, DRM-free file. It is yours forever. If you lose it (bad storage, malware, deletion), it's gone. It doesn't mean that it wasn't yours. It doesn't mean that anybody owes you a new copy in perpetuity. It doesn't make any of that "fake ownership".
- izzydata 2y agoI'm not making any suggestions I was wondering what people would agree is a good solution. If DRM free is good enough then it is good enough for me.
- ilikehurdles 2y agoThe way most online stores let you buy music is drm free. Seems like a no brainer that this is how it works. I mean if I lose my copy of any media I own and the seller that provided isn’t around, that’s on me, right?
- themadturk 2y agoThis is how Corey Doctorow sells his books. Even at Amazon his books are DRM-free. The file is yours forever, and he and his publisher (Tor) are very happy with the arrangement.