Just to retrieve stuff from the Memory Hole: Amazon's behaviour is not new, neither borderline braindead by any standards widely accepted by society. Life alwa

Just to retrieve stuff from the Memory Hole: Amazon's behaviour is not new, neither borderline braindead by any standards widely accepted by society. Life always worked like this. Digital Restrictions Management stakeholders, like SONY rootkits are colluding with all antimalware vendors and major OS suppliers to be trusted (see HDCP, miniDP). The standard procedure in case of deadtree books [1], which are democratically banned by Human Rights Champions, is to wipe off the shelves wholesale by the censors, on consensus. And block any dissemination by showing no interest, like CW/YRO/Story Nobody Wanted. Although the information age makes old techniques more cumbersome, they still work surprisingly well, perhaps because of a lack of active interest from most people. And stuff just gets more complicated from this point... [1] Look for this on Amazon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt:_Me_and_War_criminals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt:_Me_and_War_criminals