Hi Terry,
> The added 'bonus' with Amazon is that they can also retrieve the
> books from your device the next time you connect it to the web. This
> apparently is mentioned in their Terms and Conditions (but I doubt if
> one user in a thousand actually reads those).
>
> In any case, when I read the relevant part of the Ts & Cs, I
> interpreted it to mean that they could remove illegal content that you
> (the user) had installed. Certainly not illegal content that they
> (the supplier) had provided.
General consensus seems to be Amazon did this because it was the cheaper
option compared to compensating the copyright holder for the illegal
distribution. Not to say they paid no compensation at all, but you'd
think it would have kept it down. Here's a /. comment on it that I
thought interesting, though not necessarily correct. :-)
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1321681&cid=28897907
Bezos did apologise later.
http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdMsgNo=1&cdPage=1&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=Tx1FXQPSF67X1IU&displayType=tagsDetail&cdMsgID=Mx2G7WLMRCU49NO#Mx2G7WLMRCU49NO
But perhaps that was the planned route upfront and the cheaper option.
Cheers,
Ralph.
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