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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/ebooks.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/ebooks.html index b7830ec..7c6053d 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/ebooks.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/ebooks.html @@ -1,23 +1,20 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 --> +<!-- Parent-Version: 1.96 --> +<!-- This page is derived from /server/standards/boilerplate.html --> +<!--#set var="TAGS" value="essays cultural access" --> +<!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <title>E-Books: Freedom Or Copyright - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/ebooks.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="/philosophy/ph-breadcrumb.html" --> +<!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> +<!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> +<div class="article reduced-width"> <h2>E-Books: Freedom Or Copyright</h2> -<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/"><strong>Richard -Stallman</strong></a></p> - -<p><em>This is a slightly modified version of an article published -in <cite>Technology Review</cite> in 2000.</em></p> - -<div class="announcement"> -<p>Also consider reading <a -href="/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html">E-books must -increase our freedom, not decrease it</a>.</p> -</div> -<hr /> +<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard +Stallman</a></address> <p>Once upon a time, in the age of the printing press, an industrial regulation was established to cover the business of writing and @@ -68,9 +65,16 @@ Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, a law giving them total legal power over almost anything a reader might do with an e-book. Even reading it without authorization is a crime.</p> +<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary"> +<hr class="no-display" /> +<p><a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html">Join our mailing list +about the dangers of eBooks</a>.</p> +<hr class="no-display" /> +</div> + <p>We still have the same old freedoms in using paper books. But if e-books replace printed books, that exception will do little good. -With “electronic ink”, which makes it possible to download +With “electronic ink,” which makes it possible to download new text onto an apparently printed piece of paper, even newspapers could become ephemeral. Imagine: no more used book stores; no more lending a book to your friend; no more borrowing one from the public @@ -108,19 +112,28 @@ as well, since that encourages society to improve them.</p> <p>Eventually, when computer networks provide an easy way to send someone a small amount of money, the whole rationale for restricting verbatim copying will go away. If you like a book, and it pops up a -box saying, “Click here to give the author one dollar”, +box saying, “Click here to give the author one dollar,” wouldn't you click? Copyright for books and music, as it applies to distributing verbatim unmodified copies, will be entirely obsolete. And not a moment too soon!</p> -<blockquote class="announcement"> -<p><a href="http://defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html">Join our mailing -list about the dangers of eBooks</a>.</p> -</blockquote> +<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary"> +<hr class="no-display" /> +<p>Also consider reading <a +href="/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html">E-books must +increase our freedom, not decrease it</a>.</p> +</div> + +<div class="infobox extra" role="complementary"> +<hr /> +<p>This is a slightly modified version of an article published in +<cite>Technology Review</cite> in 2000.</p> +</div> +</div> </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> -<div id="footer"> +<div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a @@ -138,16 +151,33 @@ href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>.</p> to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> - <p>For information on coordinating and submitting translations of + <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of our web pages, see <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a>. --> Please see the <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations README</a> for -information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p> +information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> -<p>Copyright © 2000, 2016 Richard Stallman</p> +<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to + files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should + be under CC BY-ND 4.0. Please do NOT change or remove this + without talking with the webmasters or licensing team first. + Please make sure the copyright date is consistent with the + document. For web pages, it is ok to list just the latest year the + document was modified, or published. + + If you wish to list earlier years, that is ok too. + Either "2001, 2002, 2003" or "2001-2003" are ok for specifying + years, as long as each year in the range is in fact a copyrightable + year, i.e., a year in which the document was published (including + being publicly visible on the web or in a revision control system). + + There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers + Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> + +<p>Copyright © 2000, 2021 Richard Stallman</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -157,10 +187,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2016/11/18 06:31:39 $ +$Date: 2021/09/11 09:37:22 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> -</div> +</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> </body> </html> |