msgid "" "E-books must increase our freedom, not decrease it - GNU Project - Free " "Software Foundation" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><h2> msgid "E-books must increase our freedom, not decrease it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><address> msgid "by <a href=\"https://www.stallman.org/\">Richard Stallman</a>" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "I love The Jehovah Contract, and I'd like everyone else to love it too. I " "have lent it out at least six times over the years. Printed books let us do " "that." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "I couldn't do that with most commercial e-books. It's “not " "allowed.” And if I tried to disobey, the software in e-readers has " "malicious features called Digital Restrictions Management (DRM, for short) " "to restrict reading, so it simply won't work. The e-books are encrypted so " "that only proprietary software with malicious functionality can display " "them." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Many other habits that we readers are accustomed to are “not " "allowed” for e-books. With the Amazon “Kindle” (for which " "<a " "href=\"/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html\">“Swindle”</a> " "is a more fitting name), to take one example, users can't buy a book " "anonymously with cash. “Kindle” books are typically available " "from Amazon only, and Amazon makes users identify themselves. Thus, Amazon " "knows exactly which books each user has read. In a country such as the UK, " "where you can be <a " "href=\"https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#07_April_2012_%28Wrong_book%29\">prosecuted " "for possessing a forbidden book</a>, this is more than hypothetically " "Orwellian." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Furthermore, you can't sell the e-book after you read it (if Amazon has its " "way, the used book stores where I have passed many an afternoon will be " "history). You can't give it to a friend either, because according to Amazon " "you never really owned it. Amazon requires users to sign an End-User License " "Agreement (“EULA”) which says so." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "You can't even be sure it will still be in your machine tomorrow. People " "reading 1984 in the “Kindle” had an Orwellian experience: their " "e-books vanished right before their eyes, as Amazon used a malicious " "software feature called a “back door” to remotely delete them " "(virtual book-burning; is that what “Kindle” means?). But don't " "worry; Amazon promised never to do this again, except by order of the state." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "With software, either the users control the program (making such software <a " "href=\"/philosophy/free-sw.html\">Libre or Free</a>) or the program " "controls its users (non-Libre). Amazon's e-book policies imitate the " "distribution policies of non-Libre software, but that's not the only " "relationship between the two. The <a " "href=\"/proprietary/proprietary.html\">malicious software features</a> " "described above are imposed on users via software that's not Libre. If a " "Libre program had malicious features like those, some users skilled at " "programming would remove them, then provide the corrected version to all the " "other users. Users can't change non-Libre software, which makes it <a " "href=\"https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/root-problem-software-controlled-its-developer/\"> " "an ideal instrument for exercising power over the public</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Any one of these encroachments on our freedom is reason aplenty to say " "no. If these policies were limited to Amazon, we'd bypass them, but the " "other e-book dealers' policies are roughly similar." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "<a href=\"https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html\">Join our mailing " "list about the dangers of eBooks</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "What worries me most is the prospect of losing the option of printed " "books. The Guardian has announced “digital-only reads”: in other " "words, books available only at the price of freedom. I will not read any " "book at that price. Five years from now, will unauthorized copies be the " "only ethically acceptable copies for most books?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "It doesn't have to be that way. With anonymous payment on the Internet, " "paying for downloads of non-DRM non-EULA e-books would respect our " "freedom. Physical stores could sell such e-books for cash, like digital " "music on CDs—still available even though the music industry is " "aggressively pushing DRM-restrictive services such as Spotify. Physical CD " "stores face the burden of an expensive inventory, but physical e-book stores " "could write copies onto your USB memory stick, the only inventory being " "memory sticks to sell if you need." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The reason publishers give for their restrictive e-books practices is to " "stop people from sharing copies. They say this is for the sake of the " "authors; but even if it did serve the authors' interests (which for quite " "famous authors it may), it could not justify DRM, EULAs or the Digital " "Economy Act which persecutes readers for sharing. In practice, the " "copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors aside from the most " "popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so " "sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. Why not switch to a " "system that does the job better and is compatible with sharing?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "A tax on memories and Internet connectivity, along the general lines of what " "most EU countries do, could do the job well if three points are got " "right. The money should be collected by the state and distributed according " "to law, not given to a private collecting society; it should be divided " "among all authors, and we mustn’t let companies take any of it from them; " "and the distribution of money should be based on a sliding scale, not in " "linear proportion to popularity. I suggest using the cube root of each " "author's popularity: if A is eight times as popular as B, A gets twice B's " "amount (not eight times B's amount). This would support many fairly popular " "writers adequately instead of making a few stars richer." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Another system is to give each e-reader a button to send some small sum " "(perhaps 25 pence in the UK) to the author." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy. (I mean " "non-commercial redistribution of exact copies.) So sharing ought to be " "legal, and preventing sharing is no excuse to make e-books into handcuffs " "for readers. If e-books mean that readers' freedom must either increase or " "decrease, we must demand the increase." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "Also consider reading <a href=\"/philosophy/ebooks.html\"> E-Books: Freedom " "Or Copyright</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "This essay was originally published by <cite>The Guardian</cite>, on 17 " "April 2012, as “<a " "href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/17/sharing-ebooks-richard-stallman\">Technology " "Should Help Us Share, Not Constrain Us</a>,” with some surprise " "editing. This version incorporates parts of that editing while restoring " "parts of the original text." msgstr "" #. TRANSLATORS: Use space (SPC) as msgstr if you don't have notes. #. type: Content of: <div> msgid "*GNUN-SLOT: TRANSLATOR'S NOTES*" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a " "href=\"mailto:gnu@gnu.org\"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. There are also <a " "href=\"/contact/\">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. Broken links and " "other corrections or suggestions can be sent to <a " "href=\"mailto:webmasters@gnu.org\"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>." msgstr "" #. TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph, #. replace it with the translation of these two: # #. We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality #. translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection. #. Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard #. to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> # #. <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> # #. <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of #. our web pages, see <a #. href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations #. 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# LANGUAGE translation of https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is distributed under the same license as the original article. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: ebooks-must-increase-freedom.html\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2022-11-12 20:55+0000\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \n" "Language: \n" "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" #. type: Content of: msgid "" "E-books must increase our freedom, not decrease it - GNU Project - Free " "Software Foundation" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><h2> msgid "E-books must increase our freedom, not decrease it" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><address> msgid "by <a href=\"https://www.stallman.org/\">Richard Stallman</a>" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "I love The Jehovah Contract, and I'd like everyone else to love it too. I " "have lent it out at least six times over the years. Printed books let us do " "that." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "I couldn't do that with most commercial e-books. It's “not " "allowed.” And if I tried to disobey, the software in e-readers has " "malicious features called Digital Restrictions Management (DRM, for short) " "to restrict reading, so it simply won't work. The e-books are encrypted so " "that only proprietary software with malicious functionality can display " "them." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Many other habits that we readers are accustomed to are “not " "allowed” for e-books. With the Amazon “Kindle” (for which " "<a " "href=\"/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html\">“Swindle”</a> " "is a more fitting name), to take one example, users can't buy a book " "anonymously with cash. “Kindle” books are typically available " "from Amazon only, and Amazon makes users identify themselves. Thus, Amazon " "knows exactly which books each user has read. In a country such as the UK, " "where you can be <a " "href=\"https://www.stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#07_April_2012_%28Wrong_book%29\">prosecuted " "for possessing a forbidden book</a>, this is more than hypothetically " "Orwellian." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Furthermore, you can't sell the e-book after you read it (if Amazon has its " "way, the used book stores where I have passed many an afternoon will be " "history). You can't give it to a friend either, because according to Amazon " "you never really owned it. Amazon requires users to sign an End-User License " "Agreement (“EULA”) which says so." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "You can't even be sure it will still be in your machine tomorrow. People " "reading 1984 in the “Kindle” had an Orwellian experience: their " "e-books vanished right before their eyes, as Amazon used a malicious " "software feature called a “back door” to remotely delete them " "(virtual book-burning; is that what “Kindle” means?). But don't " "worry; Amazon promised never to do this again, except by order of the state." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "With software, either the users control the program (making such software <a " "href=\"/philosophy/free-sw.html\">Libre or Free</a>) or the program " "controls its users (non-Libre). Amazon's e-book policies imitate the " "distribution policies of non-Libre software, but that's not the only " "relationship between the two. The <a " "href=\"/proprietary/proprietary.html\">malicious software features</a> " "described above are imposed on users via software that's not Libre. If a " "Libre program had malicious features like those, some users skilled at " "programming would remove them, then provide the corrected version to all the " "other users. Users can't change non-Libre software, which makes it <a " "href=\"https://www.bostonreview.net/forum_response/root-problem-software-controlled-its-developer/\"> " "an ideal instrument for exercising power over the public</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Any one of these encroachments on our freedom is reason aplenty to say " "no. If these policies were limited to Amazon, we'd bypass them, but the " "other e-book dealers' policies are roughly similar." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "<a href=\"https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ebooks.html\">Join our mailing " "list about the dangers of eBooks</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "What worries me most is the prospect of losing the option of printed " "books. The Guardian has announced “digital-only reads”: in other " "words, books available only at the price of freedom. I will not read any " "book at that price. Five years from now, will unauthorized copies be the " "only ethically acceptable copies for most books?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "It doesn't have to be that way. With anonymous payment on the Internet, " "paying for downloads of non-DRM non-EULA e-books would respect our " "freedom. Physical stores could sell such e-books for cash, like digital " "music on CDs—still available even though the music industry is " "aggressively pushing DRM-restrictive services such as Spotify. Physical CD " "stores face the burden of an expensive inventory, but physical e-book stores " "could write copies onto your USB memory stick, the only inventory being " "memory sticks to sell if you need." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "The reason publishers give for their restrictive e-books practices is to " "stop people from sharing copies. They say this is for the sake of the " "authors; but even if it did serve the authors' interests (which for quite " "famous authors it may), it could not justify DRM, EULAs or the Digital " "Economy Act which persecutes readers for sharing. In practice, the " "copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors aside from the most " "popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so " "sharing their work benefits them as well as readers. Why not switch to a " "system that does the job better and is compatible with sharing?" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "A tax on memories and Internet connectivity, along the general lines of what " "most EU countries do, could do the job well if three points are got " "right. The money should be collected by the state and distributed according " "to law, not given to a private collecting society; it should be divided " "among all authors, and we mustn’t let companies take any of it from them; " "and the distribution of money should be based on a sliding scale, not in " "linear proportion to popularity. I suggest using the cube root of each " "author's popularity: if A is eight times as popular as B, A gets twice B's " "amount (not eight times B's amount). This would support many fairly popular " "writers adequately instead of making a few stars richer." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Another system is to give each e-reader a button to send some small sum " "(perhaps 25 pence in the UK) to the author." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><p> msgid "" "Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy. (I mean " "non-commercial redistribution of exact copies.) So sharing ought to be " "legal, and preventing sharing is no excuse to make e-books into handcuffs " "for readers. If e-books mean that readers' freedom must either increase or " "decrease, we must demand the increase." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "Also consider reading <a href=\"/philosophy/ebooks.html\"> E-Books: Freedom " "Or Copyright</a>." msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "This essay was originally published by <cite>The Guardian</cite>, on 17 " "April 2012, as “<a " "href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/17/sharing-ebooks-richard-stallman\">Technology " "Should Help Us Share, Not Constrain Us</a>,” with some surprise " "editing. This version incorporates parts of that editing while restoring " "parts of the original text." msgstr "" #. TRANSLATORS: Use space (SPC) as msgstr if you don't have notes. #. type: Content of: <div> msgid "*GNUN-SLOT: TRANSLATOR'S NOTES*" msgstr "" #. type: Content of: <div><div><p> msgid "" "Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a " "href=\"mailto:gnu@gnu.org\"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. There are also <a " "href=\"/contact/\">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. Broken links and " "other corrections or suggestions can be sent to <a " "href=\"mailto:webmasters@gnu.org\"><webmasters@gnu.org></a>." msgstr "" #. TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph, #. replace it with the translation of these two: # #. We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality #. translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection. #. Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard #. to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org"> # #. <web-translators@gnu.org></a>.</p> # #. <p>For information on coordinating and contributing translations of #. our web pages, see <a #. href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations #. 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