I’ve covered Zimmerman and I’m mostly done.
In the meantime, entities have put out the SQUIRREL for the Douglas dog.
When you put all your faith in the digital world, you shall be sorely disappointed.
To wit:
Amazon Secretly Removes “1984” From the Kindle
Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age.
Stop right there.
To those who completely suck up to the superiority of anything digital I say: you clearly voted for Obama and you voted to have your jejune little lives ruled by insect-like bureaucrats who are paid to obstruct and obfuscate and produce little if anything.
When you always opt for digital you opt for anyone and everyone other than you making your entertainment choices for you.
Translated: all your content are belong to us.
Today, you own little if any of your entertainment content, and that is purposeful. Like the drones that you are, you go along with this new paradigm.
That said, you should NOT be shocked when your digital content is removed for whatever political purpose. Because there will always be overt and covert political purposes extant.
Let me be clear: I OWN a copy of 1984. A physical copy. You cannot take that away from me or keep me from its contents. There is only one way for you to keep this book from me and that is to storm my house and physically take it from me. But therein lies a problem. I might have something to say about that and — no matter who you are — may deign to greet your unlawful actions with small metal pieces moving horizontally at great speeds.
So, to my nieces and nephews: go ahead and allow various entities to control your digital content. Let them control your music. Let them control your movies. Let them control your games. Let them control your books. They will then control you and your future.
The last is the worst: when you allow entities to control books, you lose control of your history, your present, and your future.
I refuse to do so.
And Amazon, thank God for them, has just proved my point entirely.
OPEN YOUR EYES, AMERICA.
BZ
Since I’m a Latter Day Luddite, I have only a vague idea of what you are saying. In reality, I see and understand your point.
The controllers can’t stop all of it. I see lots of young people buying used books at the thrift stores.
Saw an add on Craigslist saving he would take in trade, “Toys that make loud noises”.
Seems to be a way of skirting their anti firearms posture.
Keep up the effort, please. Need to reach just 3% to have an impact? III
Please explain why Amazon takes away the digital version but keeps the printed books for sale. Is it that once they sell the inventory out they will no longer offer them?
Do you suppose that’s some kind of impossibility should it be so desired under some administration?
I’d say that digital content doesn’t make it any more difficult.
BZ
Steve Jobs: “Oh…. Wooooooow” (last words, or realization.)
“All your base are belong to us”…. fascinating.
Similarly: Pwned the only succinct reference here:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned
We are Amazon… Resistance is futile….
Yeah, take away 1984 and people notice… hmmmmmm…
I can’t imagine why.
Better watch your E-Bibles
In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was…. Gone??!!!!!
Please check your source for this as my wife has a Kindle and just bought it and it is in her Kindle to read right now.
If you look at the very fine print at the top of the page on the linked story, you’ll notice that this story is from 2009.
Copyright infringement, the rightful owners have since put it back into the Kindle store.
Did it once, as noted above, can do it again on a whim.
My point remains.
BZ
Hmmm… I remember something about Nazi book burning; who got the idea from some other group way before them; who got the idea from some other group way before them; who got the idea…
The more reliance on electronics, the more susceptible to censorship… Real books can’t be censored other than by destruction…
Exactly.
BZ
Linked at Infidel Bloggers Alliance — with a hat tip to you, BZ.
Danke schon.
BZ
OK. I read the entire article from your source and Amazon deleted the book from the Kindles for a reason other than censorship. This is not to say this cannot or will not be done in the future in the form of censorship, something that remains to be seen. Right now, today, the REAL censorship is being done by the MSM in very selective and biased reporting. Look at the result in Obama being POTUS for a second term, the biggest disaster this country has ever faced.
Both aspects, correct. My point remains: there is precedent and your content can be removed at the touch of a button. Computers always crash or CAN be crashed. Books don’t crash.
BZ
I found this article which, as a book lover, gave me chills: Why Amazon is within its rights to remove access to your Kindle books
http://www.zdnet.com/why-amazon-is-within-its-rights-to-remove-access-to-your-kindle-books-7000006385/
Not a fan of e-anything nor knowledgable about these things, it was an eye opener to read that “All the books on your Kindle are not yours. They belong to Amazon. All that cash you have paid was simply to access these books on your Kindle. You have not paid to own the books…” Wow. Simply Wow.
I have been a book lover all my life, real books of paper and ink. Once it’s printed that copy can’t be changed overnight by a whim of PC (think Mark Twain). Your access can’t be blocked or your account deleted.
Copyright may have been the issue here but there are larger implications.
Now I can’t help but wonder…Is the concept of ownership going to be the next thing to be altered in this new world?
“All the books on your Kindle are not yours. They belong to Amazon. All that cash you have paid was simply to access these books on your Kindle. You have not paid to own the books…”
POINT MADE.
You’re welcome.
BZ
A comment from Infidel Bloggers Alliance:
Blogger Pastorius said…
iTunes stole all my music.
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF MUSIC.
I fucking hate iTunes.
It’s the same thing with Amazon.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 7:21:00 pm
BZ
Fahrenheit 451 is the name of the movie about book burning.
Note: 451 degrees is the exact temperature that paper burns.
Digital content = nothing more than vapor that can be removed from your possession on the merest and slightest of whims, political or fiscal.
BZ