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+               <title>Amazon steal books from customer and throw out her out without any explanation</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Amazon_steal_books_from_customer_and_throw_out_her_out_without_any_explanation.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A blog post from Martin Bekkelund today tell the story of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/&quot;&gt;how
+Amazon erased the books from a customer&#39;s kindle, locked the account
+and refuse to tell the customer why&lt;/a&gt;.  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
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/904658/hun-ble-kastet-ut-av-amazon&quot;&gt;digi.no&lt;/a&gt;.
+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
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://boingboing.net/2009/07/20/amazons-orwellian-de.html&quot;&gt;
+break into customers equipment and remove the books&lt;/a&gt; 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
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html&quot;&gt;Amazon
+would never do that again&lt;/a&gt;.  And here we are, three years
+later.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;And thought this action is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itavisen.no/904648/forbrukerraadet-helt-haarreisende&quot;&gt;against
+Norwegian regulations and law&lt;/a&gt;, 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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Luckily for electronic books, there are alternatives without
+unacceptable terms.  For example
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/&quot;&gt;Project Gutenberg&lt;/a&gt; (about 40,000
+books), &lt;a href=&quot;http://runeberg.org/&quot;&gt;Project Runenberg&lt;/a&gt; (1,652
+books) and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archive.org/details/texts&quot;&gt;The Internet
+Archive&lt;/a&gt; (3,641,797 books) have heaps of books without DRM, which
+can read by anyone and shared with anyone.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>The fight for freedom and privacy</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_fight_for_freedom_and_privacy.html</link>