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Comment Re:Technology to the rescue again (Score 1) 106

This ruling makes no sense to me. I get why it's easier for Amazon to simply destroy the books for sake of scanning and storage, but there's no reason it should be a requirement. Private copies were never a copyright violation, backups are explicitly legal. You never had to destroy your CDs after ripping them to your Nomad.

Comment Re:Stupid people invited as speakers will get booe (Score 1) 193

New tech has never and will never benefit workers in-and-of itself.

It does when the workers themselves own the tech.
A carpenter with power tools is going to make a lot more and better chairs with less effort than one without. But to worker in a chair factory it makes no difference how good the tools are.

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