Title: Amazon steal books from customer and throw out her out without any explanation
Tags: norsk, opphavsrett, personvern
Date: 2012-10-22 20:00

<p>A blog post from Martin Bekkelund today tell the story of
<a href="http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/">how
Amazon erased the books from a customer's kindle, locked the account
and refuse to tell the customer why</a>.  If a real book store did
this to a customer, it would be called breaking into private property
and theft.  The story has spread around the net today.  A bit more
background information is available in Norwegian from
<Ahref="http://www.digi.no/904658/hun-ble-kastet-ut-av-amazon">digi.no</a>.
This story is no surprise that digital restriction mechanisms (DRM)
are used this way, as it has been warned about such abuse since DRM
was introduced many years back.  And Amazon have proved in 2009 that
it was willing to
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/07/20/amazons-orwellian-de.html">
break into customers equipment and remove the books</a> people had
bought, when it removed the book 1984 from all customers who had
bought it.  Some even
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html">believed
Amazon would never do that again</a>.</p>

<p>And thought this probably is against Norwegian regulations and law,
it is according to the terms of use as written by Amazon.  Yet another
example of unacceptable terms of use on the web.</p>