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     <h3>Entries from October 2012.</h3>
     
+    <div class="entry">
+      <div class="title">
+        <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Amazon_steal_books_from_customer_and_throw_out_her_out_without_any_explanation.html">Amazon steal books from customer and throw out her out without any explanation</a>
+      </div>
+      <div class="date">
+        22nd October 2012
+      </div>
+      <div class="body">
+        <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
+Amazon erased the books from a customer's kindle, locked the account
+and refuse to tell the customer why</a>.  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
+<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 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 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
+<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> (about 40,000
+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>
+
+      </div>
+      <div class="tags">
+        
+        
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
+        
+        
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="padding"></div>
+    
     <div class="entry">
       <div class="title">
         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_fight_for_freedom_and_privacy.html">The fight for freedom and privacy</a>
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 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
 
-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (15)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (16)</a></li>
 
 </ul></li>
 
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  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (25)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (209)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (210)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (145)</a></li>
 
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  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (36)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (37)</a></li>
 
- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (53)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (54)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>