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The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy

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101 points kozmonaut | 1 comments | 27 Sep 25 06:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.197s | source
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buyucu ◴[27 Sep 25 07:57 UTC] No.45393947[source]▶
I just use libgen / Anna's Archive. No need to pay money to Amazon.
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ugjka ◴[27 Sep 25 08:08 UTC] No.45393995[source]▶
So how exactly pirating the books give money to the writers?
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1. throwbway37383 ◴[27 Sep 25 08:31 UTC] No.45394095[source]▶
You should check out Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin. To put it briefly, you've been fooled.

You're making an argument that empowers the likes of Amazon, not "writers", and it's by design that you've been fed that story.