Defective by Design has presented a petition to Jeff Bezos and Amazon demanding the removal from all their products.
We’re submitting the petition to Amazon to remind them that the thousands of writers, readers, academics, librarians, and public intellectuals who signed our petition asked for much more: a full removal of any DRM from the ebooks Amazon sells and the “Swindle” device itself.
Until Amazon removes all DRM, Amazon is putting our basic freedoms at risk in order to lock publishers and readers into their platform, bringing us closer to the dystopia envisioned in 1984 or The Right to Read.
The problem with this approach, however, is that it can’t work. Amazon doesn’t have full control over DRM, but must include it when publishers require it.
