Kindle under attack, DRM issues continue.

The Kindle continues to be a hot issue, something I thought would go away rather quickly since the channels I’ve read, people I’ve spoken to, and up until this last week the general noise has been rather weak. But now, Ars Technica reports about a hubbub brewing over the Kindle DRM. I’m surprised the same hasn’t been done about Apple DRM on iTunes, but I suppose it is because there is a grander oversight of Apple iTunes releases involved.

You see, the DRM on the Kindle allows Amazon to pull a book, in the last case 1984. They can pull a book from all of the Kindles at any time without authorization. They just do it.

So, a group is demanding it go away. And I thought it was interesting since the solution to copyright easing on the iTunes platform was to increase the fee and thus, allow you to use the media downloaded DRM free. I never noticed books being cheaper in digital format, and it was capable of putting my family in the poor house had I kept the Kindle because there are no pass-along opportunities with the Kindle. I can’t just give a book to someone else once I purchase it. At least, I don’t recall a legit way to do so.

What will probably happen is, to ease the DRM issue, Kindle/Amazon will release books sans DRM for a modest fee like on the iTunes platform. And there isn’t much people can do about it short of not purchasing the Kindle.

NOT PURCHASING is key here. You have to stop consuming an unwanted good for the producer to change its ways. Otherwise, they know that you are simply huffing and puffing and not capable of blowing their house down.

Good luck to Kindle owners, I returned mine a long time ago because of the text-to-speech situation. I knew it was an omen of bigger things to come. The remote deletion of 1984 was just a massive ironic coffin nail.