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 break into customers equipment and remove the books 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 Amazon would never do that again. And here we are, three years later.
@@ -37,3 +38,19 @@ books), Project Runenberg (1,652 books) and The Internet Archive (3,641,797 books) have heaps of books without DRM, which can read by anyone and shared with anyone. + +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 +digi.no +and NRK. +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 +Simon +Phipps and +Glen +Moody if you want to learn more about the fundamentals and more +details about the original story.