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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/the-danger-of-ebooks.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/the-danger-of-ebooks.html index 77d44cb..0855bd1 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/the-danger-of-ebooks.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/the-danger-of-ebooks.html @@ -1,12 +1,21 @@ <!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> -<!-- Parent-Version: 1.90 --> +<!-- 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>The Danger of E-Books - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/the-danger-of-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!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--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>The Danger of E-Books</h2> -<p class="comment">In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws, +<address class="byline">by Richard Stallman</address> + +<p>In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws, every technological advance offers business an opportunity to impose new restrictions on the public. Technologies that could have empowered us are used to chain us instead.</p> @@ -45,7 +54,8 @@ back door in 2009 to delete thousands of copies of George Orwell's 1984.</li> </ul> <p>Even one of these infringements makes e-books a step backward from -printed books. We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom [<a href="#footnote2">2</a>].</p> +printed books. We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom.<a +href="#footnote1">[1]</a></p> <p>The e-book companies say denying our traditional freedoms is necessary to continue to pay authors. The current copyright system @@ -56,36 +66,38 @@ are:</p> <ul> <li>To distribute tax funds to authors based on the cube root of each -author's popularity [<a href="#footnote1">1</a>].</li> +author's popularity.<a href="#footnote2">[2]</a></li> <li>To design players so users can send authors anonymous voluntary payments.</li> </ul> <p>E-books need not attack our freedom (Project Gutenberg's e-books don't), but they will if companies get to decide. It's up to us to stop them.</p> -<blockquote class="announcement"> +<div class="announcement comment" role="complementary"> +<hr class="no-display" /> <p>Join the fight: sign up -at <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/ebooks.html"> -http://DefectiveByDesign.org/ebooks.html</a>.</p> -</blockquote> +for <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html"> +our mailing list about the dangers of eBooks</a>.</p> +<hr class="no-display" /> +</div> -<div class="column-limit"></div> -<h3 style="font-size: 1.2em">Footnotes</h3> +<h3 class="footnote">Footnotes</h3> <ol> -<li id="footnote1">See both my speech +<li id="footnote1">[2019] To show our rejection of Amazon's e-book reader, +we call it <a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">the +Swindle</a>.</li> +<li id="footnote2">See both my speech <a href="/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html">“Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks”</a> -and <a href="http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.html">my +and <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.html">my 2012 open letter to the President of the Brazilian Senate</a>, Senator José Sarney, for more on this.</li> -<li id="footnote2">[2019] To show our rejection of Amazon's e-book reader, -we call it <a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">the -Swindle</a>.</li> </ol> +</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 @@ -103,13 +115,13 @@ to <a 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 +README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p> </div> @@ -130,7 +142,7 @@ of this article.</p> There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. --> -<p>Copyright © 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 Richard Stallman</p> +<p>Copyright © 2011, 2015, 2021 Richard Stallman</p> <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative @@ -140,10 +152,10 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2019/12/30 11:28:30 $ +$Date: 2021/10/02 16:24:05 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> -</div> +</div><!-- for class="inner", starts in the banner include --> </body> </html> |