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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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Alphane Moon@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem.…
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      It’s been a while since I’ve heard about libgen and aa - and actually i’m not sure how they operate with direct downloads of copyrighted material? I find my ebooks through more conventional p2p means, but i’ve always just assumed that was necessary to avoid sudden takedowns

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          I get my linux distros via torrent networks, mostly

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              As a rule I don’t announce my trackers publicly so they can continue existing as my trackers, but the one I use mostly is small-rodent themed.

              I’ll DM you

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