Coffs Free and Open Technology Network

Mark Pilgrim shows how fact follows dystopian fiction in the case of the Amazon Kindle e-book reader. Looks like Amazon plagiarized the Kindle terms of service from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Richard Stallman's the Right to Read.

"The Device Software will provide Amazon with data about your Device and its interaction with the Service (such as available memory, up-time, log files and signal strength) and information related to the content on your Device and your use of it (such as automatic bookmarking of the last page read and content deletions from the Device). Annotations, bookmarks, notes, highlights, or similar markings you make in your Device are backed up through the Service."