Title: Amazon steal books from customer and throw out her out without any explanation
-Tags: norsk, opphavsrett, personvern
-Date: 2012-10-22 20:20
+Tags: english, opphavsrett, personvern
+Date: 2012-10-22 20:30
<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
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://www.digi.no/904658/hun-ble-kastet-ut-av-amazon">digi.no</a>.
+It 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 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>
+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>
-<p>And thought this action probably is against Norwegian regulations
-and law, it is according to the terms of use as written by Amazon.
-It is just yet another example of unacceptable terms of use on the web.</p>
+<p>And thought this action is
+<a href="http://www.itavisen.no/904648/forbrukerraadet-helt-haarreisende">against
+Norwegian regulations and law</a>, it is according to the terms of use
+as written by Amazon, and it is hard to hold Amazon accountable to
+Norwegian laws. It is just yet another example of unacceptable terms
+of use on the web, and how they are used to remove customer
+rights.</p>
<p>Luckily for electronic books, there are alternatives without
unacceptable terms. For example
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>
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