C'mon Patrick.
The point was that with a Kindle you don't BUY what you're reading. You
don't control your access to it.
At least with a book it can't be deleted halfway through your reading it.
THAT was the point, your irrelevant, sophist example of your run-in with a
counterfeiter notwithstanding.
Thanks for playing.
Brian
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Patrick King <abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> mrt wrote:
>
> "But even if you assumed that industrial civilization would continue along
> present lines (an impossibility, as we know from physics), do you think
> poor people, who are the overwhelming majority of the world, will be buying
> Kindles and paying to download books from Amazon?"
>
> Small but important point: with the Kindle, you're not purchasing content.
> You're purchasing a license to read it. A friend of mine downloaded a
> book,and for some reason (copyright infringement or something along those
> lines)it was "recalled" and her account credited, apologies made, and it
> just flat vanished from her Kindle. As if she'd never bought it.
>
> Now I ask you, how "1984" is that?
>
> ******************************
>
> I was paid $700 in cash for a job I did and I deposited it in the bank. Two
> of the bills, my bank determined, were counterfeit and were confiscated. Not
> only did I not get my $200 back but I was taken down to the police station
> where I had to give a statement and explain where I got the money. To date I
> have not been able to recover the money from my client who apparently is in
> pretty hot water, himself.
>
> Now I ask you, how "1984" is that?
>
> Patrick King
>
>
>
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