July 22nd, 2009
Why did Big Brother remove paid-for content from Amazon's Kindles?
By Bobbie Johnson, Guardian UK
"We have long been concerned that digital rights management is essentially tricking people," says Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the campaign group based in San Francisco. "It's creating a situation where people think they've purchased something – in the way you might purchase a pair of shoes, for example. But from the perspective of the seller, and often from the perspective of the law, it's quite a lot less."
Related Issues: Digital Rights Management, Intellectual Property
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