On September 9, 2009
Thought You’d Want to Know: Amazon Takes Our Advice
Remember back in July when Amazon ironically re-enacted a scene from the novel 1984 by deleting all the copies of 1984 from its users’ Kindles? At the time, Rick and I discussed the implications of that in Guy Vs. Guy: Amazon Parties Like It’s ‘1984.’ I’m happy to say that they almost exactly what I told them to, making me an incredibly powerful and influential member of the media elite. Here’s what I’m talking about. At the time, Rick, a shameless corporate shill, wrote this: Rick: I agree that nowhere in the license agreement does it say Amazon gets to delete material from your Kindle whenever the mood (or copyright infringement) strikes. But it does note that content is “licensed…
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