Amazon.com is being sued by a 17 year old after remotely logging back into Kindle devices all over the world to delete the classic book “1984″ which it found to be a pirated copy that had been offered for sale.
This is disturbing to think that Amazon feels the right to reach back into a device to delete something that had been purchased. Automatic refunds were given but that does not compensate this teenager who had written extensive notes about the book for a class assignment.
All of those notes now reference a non-existent book.
This is shameful of Amazon to think they can do this with no prior notice to consumers that they even had the ability to do this, let alone the right.
While this is not exactly “cloud computing”, I am less than enthused about the Kindle for this very reason. When I buy something I want it in my own personal possession, and this is one reason why.
I hope this lawsuit does achieve class action status and I further hope that the courts will prevent Amazon or anyone else from doing something like this in the future.
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