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Laughing Man is offline Laughing Man
2010-05-21 , 20:41
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Note that I'm talking about the next Kindle, not this one; some of the problems you mention can be solved. In fact, Amazon has gone a long way towards making its DRM useless -- I am reading several Amazon books on my N900. And with Kindle for PC you can read its books practically everywhere, plus of course Kindle for iPad and Kindle for Android, etc.

In fact, I have suspected Amazon of finding a way of weakening its DRM deliberately so it doesn't have to confront the book vendors with the fact that their books are becoming less and less protected.

Interesting fact: It's now almost as easy to read the NY Times for free on your Kindle as it is to pay for the NY Times on your Kindle...

On the 1984 issue: I'm not sure that you can escape the basic problem that as cloud-like storage gets more widespread, lightning strikes from the clouds become more common. The users fought back against what happened to 1984 (which, by the way, you can get for free right now from the Australian Gutenberg site) and Amazon is not that likely to repeat their gaffe.

Wait.. is it Amazon or 3rd parties that have weakened the DRM? Or is it 3rd parties have cracked the DRM and Amazon isn't actively updating it? And what are you using to read it (FBReader, mGutenberg, PDF readers, etc..?)
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They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
 
geneven is offline geneven
2010-05-21 , 20:53
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man View Post
Wait.. is it Amazon or 3rd parties that have weakened the DRM? Or is it 3rd parties have cracked the DRM and Amazon isn't actively updating it? And what are you using to read it (FBReader, mGutenberg, PDF readers, etc..?)
It was weakened by third parties when Amazon made Kindle books easier to access using Kindle for PC.

I'm reading the books with FBReader, what else, my favorite!

There is a pause for the moment because the Amazon upgrades have meant that you have to use an earlier version of Kindle for PC to decode the books you buy, but to me the whole Kindle for PC, Kindle for this and for that is in itself a slow release of Amazon books out into the wild.

For further information, Google the words Kindle and Unswindle.

I don't want to conceal my opinion that though weakening DRM is a good idea, making it inconvenient for users to copy books and give them away (or sell them) to their friends is pretty much essential. That would doubtless be way off topic for this thread.
 
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2010-05-21 , 20:54
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Yeah, I was familar with Unswindle, I was just wondering if Amazon really did weaken their DRM. =P
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
They're maemo and MeeGo...

"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
 
geneven is offline geneven
2010-05-21 , 21:17
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Some DRM issues I don't understand that well, but it struck me the minute I saw Kindle for PC, "whoa, you'd think this would make it easier to free this text," and very soon thereafter Kindle for PC was being used to create DRM-free books. So, moving Kindle books to the PC was putting them in a less-protected environment, thereby de facto weakening the DRM.
 
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2010-05-21 , 22:50
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My own inexpert opinion is that the N900 is a decent Linux device, especially with EasyDebian installed. It would have been nice if they'd got USB host working though.

I can certainly see the appeal of a bigger version too!
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2010-05-22 , 20:25
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Originally Posted by Venemo View Post
Could you people please explain to me why the N8x0 or the N900 is not a decent Linux handheld?
Definition of decent is highly dependant on a person. I think that they are the only decent linux handhelds, but they don't fill the other requirements I personally have.

Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I would love to hear a rational reason for the lack of communication from Nokia pertaining the Maemo/MeeGo platform. I'm sure one exists; I just cannot figure out how it's beneficial or even a halfway good thing.
I have a feeling that it's a combination of "if we communicate, our competitors will know our next move" and "we don't want to publish any information before it's rock solid". As I have it Meego is still so new a concept, that maybe they don't know the answers we seek even themselves.

Let's say there was a device coming between N810 and N900 and another device along N900, but they decided to axe them at some point. If they would have been open and told about them in advance, the decision to cancel a device would have been big news, even if it's standard business with every major player, but they just don't talk about it.

Any speculative coverage in this part of the game... is good coverage in my eyes.
Well the amount of speculative coverage would probably skyrocket if they communicated openly. Maybe it's a good thing, or maybe the blogosphere would even learn to back off eventually, but at first I'm thinking PR nightmare.

I admit it's a tricky topic and there's no simple way to go about it.
 
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2010-05-22 , 20:30
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Thank you Naranek for a very well written answer/opinion.
 
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