Title: Amazon's use of DRM
Product review: Amazon's use of Kindle's DRM to control and monitor users and their books constitutes a clear threat to the free exchange of ideas.Amazon has already removed "read aloud" capability from books and deleted purchased copies of books on two separate occasions--all without users' permission and in apparent violation of their terms of service. They even deleted the personal notes of a high school student, taken while reading 1984.This power to control the exchange of ideas is unacceptable in a free society.Amazon's assurances that it will refrain from the worst abuses of this power do not address the problem. Amazon should not have this power in the first place. Until they give it up they will be tempted to use it, or they could be forced to by governments or narrow private interests. Whatever Amazon's reasons for imposing this control may be, they are not as important as the public's freedom to use books without interference or supervision.
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