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The Kindle is a roach motel device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

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The Kindle is a roach motel device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

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About Cory Doctorow

Cory Efram Doctorow (; born 17 July 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of its licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.