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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Amazon coughs $150k to student over lost notes
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>> | A student who sued Amazon for deleting George Orwell's Nineteen
>> | Eighty-Four from his Kindle ebook, rendering his notes useless,
>> | has won $150,000 along with protection for other Kindle users.
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/02/kindle_pay_off/
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> I just hope micoshaft is able to pay deletion fines to all
> the students that lost work from unfixed viruses.
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> They continue to sell windump software despite official
> alerts to vulns - so they should pay as they did not
> make a reasonable effort to withdraw their product from
> sale and repair it against all known vulns before selling.
If fewer people used Windows, then liability would be more realistic.
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