6 Jun
2013
6 Jun
'13
2:58 p.m.
On 6/6/13 11:27 AM, "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, David Riley wrote:
Yeah, when I read that I thought: if you made something like that up, no
one would believe it....
I like the Kindle app on my phone for the convenience factor, but our
corporate overlords at Amazon have done some pretty objectionable
things. The most amusing/chilling episode I can recall (which RMS
doesn't mention in that article) was when they remotely deleted
copies of several Orwell books including 1984 from customers who had
paid for them. Legally, they were actually doing the correct thing
because the party that had submitted it to the Kindle store didn't
have distribution rights (we can get into the ethics of copyright law
elsewhere), but it was still rather ominous.
Remotely deleting 1984...;)