Talk about the recently closed Kindle Forum

The Kindle, the largest forum in the Kindle Circle, has recently been shut down, and a flurry of waves have been set. The Kindle Forum is a more famous "Kindle Resource sharing Forum" in the K-Friends circle, so we all know how this forum is going to be, and I won't mention it.

Originally, after so many years of habit, everyone in the Internet to find piracy has become a commonplace thing. Today, I don't want to talk about the political implications of closing the Kindle forum after the "Borlnd" action and the closing of everyone's film, and talking about the reasonableness of closing the forum, and the nonsense you can skip. In addition, I have expressed this article in an anonymous way in other online communities.

Answer the following questions and refute some of the ideas that appear in the online community:

1. Can an ebook purchased on Amazon have the right to spread like a paper book?

I saw a lot of people say this when Kindleren was closed: I bought this book, why can't I lend it to a friend?

In fact, however, the cost of the ebook you pay to Amazon is not to buy the book, but instead to buy the "voucher to read this book on your device". Let's see what Amazon is saying: Amazon Help: Kindle Store conditions of use

use of Kindle content

and is limited to personal use of and may not be used for any commercial purpose.  kindle content is licensed to you by the content provider and not sold to you. The content provider may include additional usage conditions in its Kindle content. These conditions will also apply, but in the event of a conflict, this agreement shall prevail. Some content may not be available to you through the Kindle reading software.

Limit

unless expressly stated otherwise, you may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, disseminate, sublicense or otherwise transfer any rights to the Kindle content or any part of it to any third party , and you may not remove or modify any proprietary notices or logos on the Kindle content. In addition, you may not circumvent, modify, disrupt, or circumvent the security features that protect your Kindle content.

risk of loss

The risk of loss of Kindle content is transferred to you when you download or access your Kindle content.

Important content I have used the bold mark, the official said very clearly, you buy the ebook is only a provider to you the voucher, that you can download the book through Amazon and read on their own devices,Not that you bought this ebook.. If you want to "spread" the ebook, you can temporarily lend your device to your friends and family, but the voucher and Kindle device for the ebook still belong to you personally.

In fact, we can go back and look at the paper book, if you buy a paper book, and lend it to a friend to read, this behavior is actually "buy" the Kindle ebook and the device structure of the behavior of friends, but if the copy of the original books and spread, the same counts as piracy. Piracy _ Baidu Encyclopedia

2. Is the poor quality of e-books on Amazon in China a reason to download piracy?

Piracy is piracy, even if you say it is a flower or pirated. The existence of genuine is not the Amazon and the author to run out of wealth, but for the author of writing and the return of the Amazon typesetting. Users can of course feel that the Amazon layout is too bad, and can even send email to Amazon officials to scold them (of course, curse is not advisable), but to run to download the Piracy Act is stealing.

In addition, Amazon offers some of the features of book probation and a 7-day return refund service (Kindle ebook returns) to meet the user's need to "identify" bad books. It would be unreasonable to use piracy in this way.

3. Is the e-book on Amazon expensive?

Some people use their own financial resources as a shield against piracy, so let's see if Amazon e-books are expensive.

Amazon will launch two special e-books every day, now the Spring Festival Special, the daily launch of four, the average price of about 6 yuan. Suppose you can only look at one of them each week, a year is 52, a total cost of 312 yuan a year, the reading volume has been quite good, the price is also the sister to see movies, supper (taste thousand ramen, such as the casual) plus the level of the room. Do not open a room, read more than one year of books.

Say another digression, software.
Office 2013 Professional Plus + Windows 8 Pro Suite So a freshman purchase is 849, of course you can also choose to buy only the system, Office software, such as the use of WPS free software. Microsoft Windows 8 Professional Edition light buy a system is 448 yuan, according to our school study-study standard, two months can enter, if the cost of living is abundant, province a province soon have. As for Ide,visual Stuio 2013 students can use free of charge, use the school mailbox registration or provide relevant proof can, giant hard simply conscience.

> Maybe I'm going to be accused of "not eating meat", but I'm talking about most people , and the consumption of ebooks and genuine software is not expensive.

So, whether it is wage earners or unpaid students, the use of piracy is justified.

4. Should they not be accused of piracy users before they are pirated users?

Many people hold the view that: "You can guarantee that you use the system is genuine, from small to large read books are genuine?" Do it again to accuse us! "To see such a rogue point of view is actually very helpless, because it is not worth a barge." The core of this idea is to want to maintain the legitimate users to a level with pirated users, and then to the moral attack, such as the accusation of legitimate users "loaded", "full of superiority" and so on. In truth, you are trying to defeat you morally, and this is the long-term way of thinking.

I can admit to myself that I was a pirated user myself, and I downloaded pirated e-books on the Kindle, but that doesn't prevent me from buying a genuine ebook on Amazon. In the future I will also use their own actions to maintain the original, as far as possible to do life work full genuine (after all, employer with pirated a lawsuit is the company and I do not have a half gross money relationship ... ）。

As a former pirate user, I naturally feel guilty, but the people who have been using piracy are plausible that I am unworthy to accuse them, which is ridiculous.

Well, that's roughly the case, the following is purely personal vent time.

What do I think about this? Closing the forum is good for protecting the genuine, but it doesn't mean much, it's just a bunch of Kindle pirates that are being watched by mosquitoes. Find a film can directly Baidu "Xxx.torrent", find a harmless e-book is not easy, do not underestimate the wisdom of the nation. So, I'm majoring in computer science and technology, and at least half of our majors will be programmers when they graduate, that is to say, they have to eat their own code. But the reality is, we also have a lot of professional people hold "buy an iphone so expensive why app still need to collect money" point of view, how to say, I think if we all think so we still starve together.

Moreover, it is unclear whether there are other reasons to close many pirated websites to protect copyright.

Anyway, I'm not optimistic.

Talk about the recently closed Kindle Forum