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It's official. I've bought my LAST EVER Kindle book.

Sorry authors, but taking a page out of Musk's, Trump's, and Bezos' playbook, I'm stealing Amazon books via torrent. My Kindle has NEVER let Amazon anywhere near WiFi, and never will (since a paid-for book was deleted remotely by Amazon following a copyright dispute).

#Copyright #Kindle #Amazon

Amazon will stop allowing Kindle book downloads to your PC soon | The Verge

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The Verge · Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle booksBy Andrew Liszewski

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#CyberSecurity #bespacific @bespacific

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 15, 2025

Five highlights from this week: How to Clear Your Personal Data From a Car; Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook; Pairwise Authentication of Humans; Attacks on password managers increased drastically in 2024; and Judge blocks Musk's #DOGE from accessing Treasury materials.

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Ultimately, what is holding back community driven content creation is #copyright, copyrights do not protect artists but rent seeking rights holders, copyright has already been abolished for 9 10ths of the population, let us abolish copyright in fact, by shamelessly sampling and remixing copyrighted movies and music,

a decentralized streaming solution, like PeerTube, or something involving webtorrent for example could create a situation where it's impossible to take down content for copyright reasons because there is no central arbiter, and crowdsourced financing already obscures the creator from content thus creating plausible deniability, and in any case the copyright trolls can not personally sue millions of people

sadly, artists and developers are woefully naive as to the issue of copyright and how fundamental file sharing is to human freedom ( broad fair use of artistic work is *more* important than free software, this is obvious, think for 2 seconds )