“In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.”
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In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.
