They wanted to fight back against that kind of change, so they attempted to spark a backlash. For a while, they appeared to be successful, but in the end, their chosen fandoms repudiated them—GamerGate via a near-total lack of any friendly coverage outside Breitbart or The Escapist, and the Puppies via a larger body of voters explicitly rejecting the choices from their slates. And both movements reacted effectively the same way: alleging they were the victims of media bias and a conspiracy.
]]>(But boy, if there is such an overlap, when combined with estimates I've seen on the number of voters of each persuasion, it certainly sheds new light on just how small the GamerGate movement really is. Even if every single Puppy voter were a GamerGater, there were only about a thousand of them who could afford to pony up the $40 necessary to cast their vote?)
]]>CleanFilms et al were taking a copy of a movie and creating a bowdlerized copy itself, which they were then selling. ClearPlay basically issued a set of programming instructions to its DVD player on how to play the movie, where to mute several seconds of footage, and so on. ClearPlay seems a lot closer in spirit to Clean Reader.
]]>I don't think the question of whether an e-book is sold or licensed has actually been tested in court yet, though I could be wrong.
]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_and_Copyright_Act#Family_Home_Movie_Act_of_2005
Since it doesn't alter the original work, just the way in which you read it, it may legally be a fair use, at least over here in the States.
Of course, nothing prevents people now from decompiling e-books, running their own search-and-replace, and recompiling them. If I was ever in a situation where I felt I needed to do that (heavens forfend!) I certainly wouldn't rely on someone else's app to do it for me.
]]>The thing is, they've had the ability to do this for several years now, by dropping the wholesale rate they charge smaller e-book vendors such as Fictionwise.
But I've seen a number of examples of Macmillan e-books that are still at hardcover prices, months or years after the printed versions went paperback.
Even leaving aside the price-fixing issues, how are we to believe that the leopard has suddenly changed its spots now?
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