{"id":412,"date":"2009-06-25T00:06:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/kindle-drm-complaints\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T00:06:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:06:50","slug":"kindle-drm-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/kindle-drm-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle DRM Complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really interested in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00154JDAI\">kindle<\/a>.  I plan to get one as soon as they release a version for Japan.  That might be a while, but that is ok, I can wait.  The wireless feature is just killer and I would hate to import one and be without it.<\/p>\n<p>I am a bit worried about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/campaigns\/drm.html\">Digital Restrictions Management<\/a> on it &#8211; you should read Stallman&#8217;s prescient <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/right-to-read.html\">The Right to Read<\/a> if you haven&#8217;t &#8211; but generally think the Kindle offers a reasonable tradeoff.  I would vastly prefer no DRM, but Amazon&#8217;s approach is good enough for me.  <\/p>\n<p>Still, I am glad to see other people complain about the issue.  See, in particular, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geardiary.com\/2009\/06\/19\/kindles-drm-rears-its-ugly-head-and-it-is-ugly\/\">this post about DRM on the kindle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geardiary.com\/2009\/06\/21\/kindlegate-confusion-abounds-regarding-kindle-download-policy\/\">the followup<\/a>, and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geardiary.com\/2009\/06\/23\/an-open-letter-to-amazons-jeff-bezos\/\">open letter to Jeff Bezos<\/a> on DRM.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I have upgraded my <a href=\"http:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/?postid=289\">OLPC<\/a> to a newer firmware and version of Ubuntu.  It can sleep now so it should be more useful for me for reading ebooks, but I haven&#8217;t finished the setup (getting Japanese to work) and testing FBReader.  I&#8217;ll post on that once I get all that set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really interested in a kindle. I plan to get one as soon as they release a version for Japan. That might be a while, but that is ok, I can wait. The wireless feature is just killer and I would hate to import one and be without it. I am a bit worried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}