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____/ Bob Hauck on Monday 20 July 2009 13:40 : \____
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:22:49 -0700, Tim Smith
> <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-oth
>>> ers/
>>
>> The publisher did not change its mind. As the Times later noted, along
>> with several other news sources, the publisher did not have the rights
>> to the books in the US in the first place. These two books are public
>> domain in several countries, but are still under copyright in the US. A
>> publisher outside the US put its editions (legal in its country) up for
>> sale on the US Kindle store.
>
> So Amazon basically made the worst possible call in terms of customer
> service. It wasn't the customer's fault that the books were not legal,
> and if they had been physical books it would have been impossible to
> retrieve them.
>
> The only remedy would have been to stop selling the books. Which is
> what anybody with any sense would have done in this case. Instead they
> decided to demonstrate the "gotcha" built into their product for all to
> see.
>
> Or, if you care about your rights, maybe it was good that they held this
> little demonstration.
Nice spin there from the trolls. It's the intrusion into people's property
that's criticised, not legitimacy of the content.
Neither the books nor the devices are the property of the buyer. How kind.
iPhone is the same.
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