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Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words
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| theodp writes "To exist or not to exist: that
| is the query. That's what the famous Hamlet
| soliloquy might look like if subjected to
| Amazon's newly-patented System and Method for
| Marking Content, which calls for
| 'programmatically substituting synonyms into
| distributed text content,' including 'books,
| short stories, product reviews, book or movie
| reviews, news articles, editorial articles,
| technical papers, scholastic papers, and so
| on' in an effort to uniquely identify
| customers who redistribute material. In its
| description of the 'invention,' Amazon also
| touts the use of 'alternative misspellings for
| selected words' as a way to provide 'evidence
| of copyright infringement in a legal action.'
| After all, anti-piracy measures should trump
| kids' ability to spell correctly, shouldn't
| they?"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/10/28/2236235/Amazon-Patents-Changing-Authors-Words
Recent:
Impeach Bezos for Amazon's Kindle Swindle
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| We hope he gets the message that he's swindling his customers and in the
| process undermining important fundamental freedoms to read and share. Amazon
| seems to understand this message when it comes to music -- why don't they get
| it when it comes to the Kindle?
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/impeach-jeff-bezos-for-kindle-swindle
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