blog/data/2012-10-22-amazon-steal.txt

   1 Title: Amazon steal books from customer and throw out her out without any explanation
   2 Tags: norsk, opphavsrett, personvern
   3 Date: 2012-10-22 20:00
   4
   5 <p>A blog post from Martin Bekkelund today tell the story of
   6 <a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/">how
   7 Amazon erased the books from a customer's kindle, locked the account
   8 and refuse to tell the customer why</a>.  If a real book store did
   9 this to a customer, it would be called breaking into private property
  10 and theft.  The story has spread around the net today.  This is no
  11 surprise that digital restriction mechanisms (DRM) are used this way,
  12 as it has been warned about such abuse since DRM was introduced many
  13 years back.  And Amazon have proved in 2009 that it was willing to
  14 <a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/07/20/amazons-orwellian-de.html">
  15 break into customers equipment and remove the books</a> people had
  16 bought, when it removed the book 1984 from all customers who had
  17 bought it.  Some even
  18 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html">believed
  19 Amazon would never do that again</a>.</p>
  20
  21 <p>And thought this probably is against Norwegian regulations and law,
  22 it is according to the terms of use as written by Amazon.  Yet another
  23 example of unacceptable terms of use on the web.</p>