Saw a number of free books on Apple Books and was wondering if I could get them on my Kindle. Every single one I tried was DRM-free other than 1984.

  • DanielOP
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    05 months ago

    I might be wrong but isn’t a concern about DRM that it locks you into a specific ecosystem, which can spy on you? Sure, it’s not government surveillance, but I think that it’s still ironic.

    • 🔍🦘🛎
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      165 months ago

      Certainly a stretch. Fahrenheit 451 would be a better example

    • Cethin
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      Government surveillance is only what the zeitgeist has turned 1984 into. It isn’t really the focus of the book. Sure, it’s there, but it isn’t the largest thing. The thing is, it’s much better for the media to tell you that it’s just about government surveillance rather than you actually learning what it’s about, which is really also more what it’s about. Now that’s irony.