DIY kindle scanner
DIY kindle scanner. This is an art project reflecting the relation of book scanning, copyright, and digital rights management. This is not intended to be understood as an instruction or invitation, but rather as a provocative thought experiment.
In 2002, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote in an open letter to the authors guild: »When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.« [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1291]
A few years later, his company built a device that effectively violates the very ideas he expressed in this statement.
The DIY kindle scanner is an art installation reflecting this loss of rights Jeff Bezos first defended for us, but then chose to remove. It also is a statement about the futility of DRM.
Please note that this is a project i did in my private time, as a private person, and it reflects my private views. I do not consider it part of my work at the Vienna University of Technology.
Typeface used in the Video: Yanone Kaffeesatz, (CC) Jan Gerner
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