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(NaturalNews) Two weeks ago when Amazon.com remotely deleted copies of books that customers had purchased for their Kindle devices, it was a wake-up call for many consumer. "Huh? They can delete stuff I already bought?" Welcome to the world of DRM technology.
DRM is a "Big Brother" technology that allows content controllers like Amazon.com or Apple to control (or even delete) content you've already paid for. Books, movies, music files and even software applications can be deleted or deactivated at the flick of a (digital) switch. Such technologies also limit your ability to move content from one device to another. You can't read Kindle books on your Sony E-Reader, for example. Nor can you loan a Kindle book to a friend in the way that you might loan a physical book to a friend (or check one out from the library).
NaturalNews joins the librarians of the world in taking a stand against DRM technology and restoring the freedom to read books (or other content) without being tethered to a digital leash from an overbearing corporate content provider.
As such, we hereby advise the following to NaturalNews readers:
• Avoid all DRM purchases, period! Stop buying DRM-locked content from Apple, Amazon.com or other "Big Brother" content publishers.
• Stop renting DRM-protected movies through services such as Amazon's "Video on Demand" service. These movies are restricted in the way you are allowed to view them, and on some services, they expire if you don't watch them quickly enough.
• Don't buy DRM-protected music. Stick with DRM-free "clean" MP3 files that you can keep for life.
• Avoid MP3 music subscription services that require your MP3 player to sync with the server from time to time (such as Napster To Go, etc.).
• Don't buy DRM-protected audio books from sellers like Audible.com, whose strict DRM technology complicates your book listening experience and makes it impossible for you to move files from one device to another without re-syncing with their servers.
Above all, do not financially reward "Big Brother" companies that try to control you with DRM technology! Learn more about the problems with DRM technology at www.DefectiveByDesign.org
Why NaturalNews embraces peer-to-peer file sharing technologyNaturalNews has always released its content without DRM protections of any kind. Our music files (Health Ranger hip hop songs) have been offered as free, open downloads in clean MP3 formats (http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Mu...). Our articles, cartoons, videos and podcasts have all been 100% DRM-free and will continue to stay that way.
We believe knowledge wants to be free, and if we could find a way to give away all our Truth Publishing books for free and still pay the bills around here, we would do that, too. But even though we sell some books as a way to cover our operating costs, we still don't use any sort of DRM limitations on those books.
Now, in response to Amazon.com's Kindle deletion scheme (and Apple's ongoing Big Brother philosophy on content control), NaturalNews is embracing peer-to-peer content distribution technology (torrents) to distribute our content in a 100% DRM-free format.
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