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Oh! The irony.... (lemmy.ml)
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Saw a number of free books on Apple Books and was wondering if I could get them on my Kindle. Every single one I tried was DRM-free other than 1984.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I might be wrong but isn’t a concern about DRM that it locks you into a specific ecosystem, which can spy on you? Sure, it’s not government surveillance, but I think that it’s still ironic.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Certainly a stretch. Fahrenheit 451 would be a better example

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Government surveillance is only what the zeitgeist has turned 1984 into. It isn't really the focus of the book. Sure, it's there, but it isn't the largest thing. The thing is, it's much better for the media to tell you that it's just about government surveillance rather than you actually learning what it's about, which is really also more what it's about. Now that's irony.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Government surveillance is to 1984 as the pre-title sequence is to James Bond movies.

Look just read the book.