Posted on 04/10/2013 1:23:10 PM PDT by grundle
An Amazon Kindle user has had her account wiped and all her paid-for books deleted by Amazon without warning or explanation.
The Norwegian woman, identified only as Linn on media commentator Martin Bekkelund's blog, approached Amazon when she realised her Kindle had been wiped.
She was informed by a customer relations executive that her account had been closed, all open orders had been cancelled and all her content had been removed, but has been unable to find out why.
The move, which will shock ebook fans, highlights the power digital rights management (DRM) offers blue-chip companies. DRM is used by hardware manufacturers and publishers to limit the use of digital content once it has been purchased by consumers; in Amazon's case, it means the company can prevent you from reading content you have bought at the Kindle store on a rival device.
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Wow! That is great! Thanks for the link! I’m gonna go to town with that app!
This is why you should always have local copies of any digital books with their DRM broken. I crack every single book I get. As long as it is DRM’d, it’s not really yours.
You can even grab text off Free Republic.
I LOVE IT!!!!
People jump HEAD FIRST into this crap and it never occurs to them that a SINGLE COMMAND can wipe out everything she has.
She is an IDIOT and deserves her punishment.
How Farenheit 451 will work in the 21st century. Trick everyone into putting all literary knowledge on electronic devices. Then wipe it blank.
I agree with you that amazon doesn’t want to stop sales. The point is that if these had been physical, paper books, this deletion could not have happened.
Thanks. I didn’t know you could make backups like that.
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