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From: | Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda |
Subject: | [www-pt-br-general] The danger of e-books |
Date: | Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:33:46 -0300 |
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The Danger of E-Books - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
The Danger of E-Books
Join our mailing list about the dangers of eBooks.
Junte-se à nossa lista de e-mails sobre os perigos dos e-books.
In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws, every technological advance offers business an opportunity to impose new restrictions on the public. Technologies that could have empowered us are used to chain us instead.
Em uma época na qual empresas dominam nossos governos e escrevem nossas leis, cada avanço tecnológico oferece às empresas uma oportunidade para impor novas restrições sobre o público. Tecnologias que poderiam nos dar poder são usadas, ao contrário, para nos acorrentar.
With printed books,
Com livros impressos,
You can buy one with cash, anonymously.
Then you own it.
You are not required to sign a license that restricts your use of it.
The format is known, and no proprietary technology is needed to read the book.
You can give, lend or sell the book to another.
You can, physically, scan and copy the book, and it's sometimes lawful under copyright.
Nobody has the power to destroy your book.
Contrast that with Amazon e-books (fairly typical):
Contraste isso com os e-books [livros eletrônicos] da Amazon (que são bem tÃpicos):
Amazon requires users to identify themselves to get an e-book.
In some countries, including the US, Amazon says the user cannot own the e-book.
Amazon requires the user to accept a restrictive license on use of the e-book.
The format is secret, and only proprietary user-restricting software can read it at all.
An ersatz “lending” is allowed for some books, for a limited time, but only by specifying by name another user of the same system. No giving or selling.
To copy the e-book is impossible due to Digital Restrictions Management in the player and prohibited by the license, which is more restrictive than copyright law.
Amazon can remotely delete the e-book using a back door. It used this back door in 2009 to delete thousands of copies of George Orwell's 1984.
Even one of these infringements makes e-books a step backward from printed books. We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom.
Cada uma dessas infrações coloca os e-books um passo atrás em relação aos livros impressos. Precisamos rejeitar os e-books, até que eles respeitem nossa liberdade.
The e-book companies say denying our traditional freedoms is necessary to continue to pay authors. The current copyright system supports those companies handsomely and most authors badly. We can support authors better in other ways that don't require curtailing our freedom, and even legalize sharing. Two methods I've suggested are:
As companhias de e-books dizem que negar nossas liberdades tradicionais é necessário para continuar a pagar autores. O sistema atual de direitos autorais apóia lindamente essas companhias, e de maneira ruim a maioria dos autores. Nós podemos apoiar os autores melhor de outros modos que não requeiram encurtar nossa liberdade, ou mesmo legalizar o compartilhamento. Dois métodos que tenho sugerido são:
To distribute tax funds to authors based on the cube root of each author's popularity. See http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.html.
To design players so users can send authors anonymous voluntary payments.
E-books need not attack our freedom (Project Gutenberg's e-books don't), but they will if companies get to decide. It's up to us to stop them.
E-books não precisam atacar nossa liberdade (os e-books do Projeto Gutenberg não atacam), mas eles o farão se a decisão ficar nas mãos das companhias. Cabe a nós impedi-las.
Join the fight: sign up at http://DefectiveByDesign.org/ebooks.html.
Junte-se à luta: subscreva-se em http://DefectiveByDesign.org/ebooks.html.
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