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The confusion goes further. When you "buy" a kindle book, are you buying it or leasing it? It's still restricted, you can only put it where amazon says you can
by Joeri 12y ago
The confusion goes further. When you "buy" a kindle book, are you buying it or leasing it? It's still restricted, you can only put it where amazon says you can put it, so in my view that's leasing. Yet the button on the site says "Buy", and there's no other component involved.
At the very least the labeling laws should require clearly distinguishing between purchase and lease. If there's a part of the product that you're only leasing and not buying, the whole thing must say "lease" or "rent". It would be funny to see amazon forced to relabel their site like that though...
- agumonkey 12y agoIt's rabbithole. Owning a VHS tape recorder forbids you to use Betamax. Even when things become a standard you're still under the ecosystem diktat. Unless someone broaden the GNU manifesto and distribution to the physical world, where you could share means to create factories to produce anything you need on your own (pushing the debate onto matter, land and energy).