X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/ecfee835b65690fe8953b1c7b880285d10367d45..2303a53e3000b721cc73c3bfe81b6d2911b51a35:/blog/data/2012-10-22-amazon-steal.txt?ds=inline diff --git a/blog/data/2012-10-22-amazon-steal.txt b/blog/data/2012-10-22-amazon-steal.txt index 921429782e..6a450247da 100644 --- a/blog/data/2012-10-22-amazon-steal.txt +++ b/blog/data/2012-10-22-amazon-steal.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ 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

A blog post from Martin Bekkelund today tell the story of how @@ -9,21 +9,27 @@ and refuse to tell the customer why. 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 -digi.no. -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 +digi.no. +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 break into customers equipment and remove the books people had -bought, when it removed the book 1984 from all customers who had -bought it. Some even -believed -Amazon would never do that again.

+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.

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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.

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And thought this action is +against +Norwegian regulations and law, 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.

Luckily for electronic books, there are alternatives without unacceptable terms. For example @@ -32,3 +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.

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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.