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Comment Re:Piracy = Theft Analogy (Score 3, Insightful) 432

Presumably because the arrangement of ones and zeros took hours of someone's life... they should really get paid for that. Aside from the lotto winners (angry birds, etc) the vast majority of developers make less than minimum wage off the apps. I have one that's sold close to a thousand copies and I'm still only at about $5.50/hour. So while stealing is clearly the wrong word (since you didn't deprive me of anything); copyright infringement applies and you should really feel pretty guilty -- particularly if you find my app useful.

Comment Re:Dawkins has always been deliberately insulting. (Score 2, Insightful) 1152

Is your quote supposed to be something he said that was wrong (is that even a quote)? I think he got it right. The god written about in the old testament is a horrible person, and all those things are definitely aspects of the character as written; not that I think that's who modern Christians are worshiping -- they like a cloudier version made of Love or something.

Comment Re:The hacker spirit is admirable, but little util (Score 1) 51

I think the main reason to hack the kindles is to remove annoyances ... I buy a new kindle every year (yeah, I'm a sucker and I love the products) but I don't get my next one until I'm sure I can jailbreak it. Then I can add my own fonts, remove their ugly "screensavers" (exactly what am I saving btw? the display takes 0 power, just leave the fucking text there, thanks) and allow more formats (eg, epub). I buy a lot of books too, amazon isn't losing anything. Why don't they let me do these simple things out of the box? Idiots. No, wait, not idiots. If putting an mp3 in the usb drive can crack it... I think they know how to fix it and choose to not care. But this way, they not only have to not support it, but they don't even get the calls, "Hi, I cracked my kindle to use unsuported features; will you help me?"

Comment Re:Amazon doesn't make you use DRM (Score 1) 242

I'm under the impression that the current azw format is a mobi with hooks for the generation 1 kindles that do prc (palm III format) only. So your standard reader can read them, yes, by finding either the prc header or the mobi header. If it's encrypted, no so much, but yeah. it can read them.

Comment All he had to do... (Score 2) 242

... was document that he held the copyright or that he had permission to publish it.

This is standard procedure actually. You have to show that you hold the copyright or they won't publish it. I published a book for an author of a book that's been on the web for years. He (the author) had to fully document that he wrote it or they would have pulled the book -- despite the fact that we had a contract agreement that I was supposed to publish it. They insisted that only the copyright holder can publish under the model we had selected and they made him document it. That policy actually makes sense. There's like 6,000 copies of most public domain books, most of which are easier to read or better formatted for the web.

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