Mastodawn

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116377687987470957

“But you can still read your existing books! And jailbreak it to upload more!”

Imagine having a car that the manufacturer one day just declares that you can’t put gas in anymore.

To get gas you’d have to cut a hole into your car so you can sneak some in bypassing the inlet. But you can’t go to real gas stations anymore so you have to get gas in a back alley from some random guy.

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Ingo van Lil

@thomasfuchs How are stores selling DRM-free Epubs shady back-alley guys and "not real gas stations" in this analogy?

Granted, if you need to jail-break a Kindle just to upload third-party media then that's a no-go, but then that's already been the case back when the device was new and shiny and fully supported.