Comments on: Amazon Deletes Books From Kindle Without User Consent

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By: Holmes Wilson

Holmes Wilson — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:42:29 +0000

Re: In response to Amazon’s remote deletion of 1984 and Animal Farm

Hi there,

Saw you’d written about the Amazon / 1984 flap, and I thought you might be
interested in the petition we launched yesterday:

http://defectivebydesign.org/amazon1984

We have over 1400 signatures already, and signers include Lawrence Lessig,
Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow and other notable authors, librarians, and
scholars.

The petition opens:

“We believe in a way of life based on the free exchange of ideas, in which
books have and will continue to play a central role. Devices like Amazon’s
are trying to determine how people will interact with books, but Amazon’s
use of DRM to control and monitor users and their books constitutes a clear
threat to the free exchange of ideas.”

Please have a look, and if you support the cause or think it would be
interesting to your readers, a blog post would be great!

Thanks,

-Holmes Wilson
Free Software Foundation

By: Mike Licht

Mike Licht — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:07:53 +0000

Six months ago bloggers (notably Stephanie at UrbZen) warned about this kind of thing.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/kindle-see-we-told-you-so/

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By: Tumblemoose

Tumblemoose — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:29:01 +0000

Actually, several news services are reporting that the reason the books were pulled was because the books loaded on the self pub platform lacked the proper copyright from the self publisher.

OK boys. You can stand down the black helicopters.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:04:05 +0000

News seem to focus on 1984 irony but this was not censorship act as far as I understand, merely copyright screwup.

As for situation overall – I only wonder how many more it will take to teach people at last to not touch anything with DRM on it. Ever.

By: Wurzelmann

Wurzelmann — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:58:42 +0000

This has written “censorship” all over…

By: Georg

Georg — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:42:02 +0000

Reminds me of the book “Fahrenheit 451″ where Fireman walk from door to door burning books. Their work would be a lot easier using the delete feature that amazon offers :-)