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 Title: Amazon steal books from customer and throw out her out without any explanation
-Tags: norsk, opphavsrett, personvern
+Tags: english, opphavsrett, personvern
 Date: 2012-10-22 20:30
 
 <p>A blog post from Martin Bekkelund today tell the story of
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ introduced many years back.  And Amazon 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 the customers who had
-bought it.  From the official comments, it even sounded like
+bought, when it removed the book 1984 by George Orwell from all the
+customers who had bought it.  From the official comments, it even
+sounded like
 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html">Amazon
 would never do that again</a>.  And here we are, three years
 later.</p>
@@ -37,3 +38,19 @@ books), <a href="http://runeberg.org/">Project Runenberg</a> (1,652
 books) and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/texts">The Internet
 Archive</a> (3,641,797 books) have heaps of books without DRM, which
 can read by anyone and shared with anyone.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2012-10-23: This story broke in the morning on Monday. In
+the evening after the story had spread all across the Internet, Amazon
+restored the account of the user, as reported by
+<a href="http://www.digi.no/904675/helomvending-fra-amazon">digi.no</a>
+and <a href="http://nrk.no/kultur-og-underholdning/1.8368487">NRK</a>.
+Apparently public pressure work.  The story from Martin have seen
+several twitter messages per minute the last 24 hours, which is quite
+a lot, and is still drawing a lot of attention.  But even when the
+account is restored, the fundamental problem still exist.  I recommend
+reading two opinions from
+<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/10/rights-you-have-no-right-to-your-ebooks/index.htm">Simon
+Phipps</a> and
+<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/10/is-amazon-playing-fair/index.htm">Glen
+Moody</a> if you want to learn more about the fundamentals and more
+details about the original story.</p>