[SWLUG] Kindle Warning?

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 13:09 +0000, Neil Jones wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have no intention of getting a kindle. I like my books.I like the fact 
> they are physical and real.
> I have had too many problems with electronics to want to trust my 
> precious books to a machine.
> 
> But one little piece of the terms and conditions really alarms me
> " solely for your personal, non-commercial use." So through the evils of 
> Digital Restrictions Management
> Amazon is restricting your use of knowledge. What is Non-commercial use? 
> Even if you think you have a definition it might
> be up to a court to decide on it. So you can read a book at home but not 
> use the knowledge gained in work?
> I'm sorry but I'm not privatising the contents of my mind like this. It 
> sounds daft to me.

To be honest, I'd classify "non-commercial" in this sense to be an
agreement that you won't sell your kindle with all the books on it to
someone else and make a profit, not "you can't use what you have read to
make money".

But then again, I'm not a lawyer.... ;)

M.