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Comment on E-books at libraries are a huge hit, leading to long waits, reader hacks and worried publishers in ~books
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Comment on E-books at libraries are a huge hit, leading to long waits, reader hacks and worried publishers in ~books
nahkoots Link ParentLink removed. Is that requirement listed anywhere in the terms of use? I checked before I posted and didn't see it, but I might've just missed it.Link removed.
Is that requirement listed anywhere in the terms of use? I checked before I posted and didn't see it, but I might've just missed it.
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Comment on E-books at libraries are a huge hit, leading to long waits, reader hacks and worried publishers in ~books
nahkoots (edited )Link ParentYou can download Blowout from Library Genesis here (edit: link removed at Deimos's request, but it's not difficult to find). I’ve tried checking out e-books from my university’s library and never...You can download Blowout from Library Genesis here (edit: link removed at Deimos's request, but it's not difficult to find).
I’ve tried checking out e-books from my university’s library and never bothered reading more than a page or two before downloading the book elsewhere, because even if it’s immediately available, the library usually requires me to access it through a slow web interface or by downloading proprietary software, either of which are both irritating to use compared to viewing an epub with dedicated software on my computer and not really practices I want to support anyway. The whole issue is yet another example of DRM only hurting paying customers. You go out of your way to abide by the arbitrary restrictions imposed by publishers and get a time-consuming, frustrating experience for your troubles while anyone who pirates their books gets to sidestep those hassles entirely. Until we as consumers show publishers that we won’t accept their inane practices, nothing will change, so I encourage everyone to pirate their books (and digital media in general) until it becomes the less convenient option.
Of course, if you do want to support the current system, you can still download the book in good conscience. The publisher will never know that you were able to read it a few months before they were going to let you.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
nahkoots Link ParentI wish that were the case. Nowadays, I expect all proprietary software and hardware I'm forced to use to send every byte of my personal information it can get its hands on back to its parent...You just don't expect a printer to collect personal data beyond what's necessary for debugging
I wish that were the case. Nowadays, I expect all proprietary software and hardware I'm forced to use to send every byte of my personal information it can get its hands on back to its parent country/the NSA/China. That they sometimes give me the option to disable their tracking is of little reassurance. Even if I dutifully uncheck all their boxes, who's to say they don't collect a little more data they didn't deem worthy of being disabled? What if they re-check the boxes while you're not looking, or just ignore them entirely? If I can't see what it's doing under the hood, I have no (practical) way of knowing, and certainly no reason to trust them given their financial incentive to take whatever they can get away with.
The only devices I connect to the Internet are my computers. Everything else can get its data through them or not at all.
Definitely, and I certainly wouldn't ever do that. "No copyright violations" is already in the terms of use though, so whether or not it's obvious is irrelevant. Posting links to pirated content, on the other hand, doesn't violate copyright law (at least I hope not, otherwise Google's in a lot of trouble right about now), so unless a website owner doesn't indicate in their terms of use or in their replies to comments that it's not allowed, there's no way to know.
Of course, banning legal discussion isn't anything new or unusual. For example, Tumblr bans nudity and adult content and Reddit bans discussion of dark web marketplaces, neither of which are illegal but both of which (apparently) look bad to advertisers. There's nothing wrong with Deimos doing the same, and he's already said he doesn't intend for Tildes to be a bastion for free speech. I didn't want to make assumptions for Tildes based on those sites, though, since Tildes is different in that it doesn't need to cater to advertisers.
Side note: Deimos, does that link to the image of Google linking to pirated content also break Tildes's rules (and would your answer change if, instead of displaying the link as "thepiratebay.org > torrent > Frozen 2", Google included the actual link in text in the search result)? I'm not trying to be intentionally obtuse, but I'm not entirely sure where to draw the line.