Comments on: Amazon puts Orwell e-books in the memory hole

By: Miss18

Miss18 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:53:30 +0000

October 2008 at 9:35 pm Dear Mr Goldstein,I work for the brazilian magazine and i´m interested in writing about your experiment. ,

By: Miss10

Miss10 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:56:56 +0000

I used to hang out with cokeheads. ,

By: Amazon Clarifies What Can Go Down The Memory Hole - Programming Blog

Amazon Clarifies What Can Go Down The Memory Hole - Programming Blog — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:35:18 +0000

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Amazon clarifies what can go in the memory hole — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:59:09 +0000

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By: Technology blog » Big Amazon will give you back your copies of 1984, annotations won’t be sent into the chute

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:09:52 +0000

[...] Big Amazon will give you back your copies of 1984, annotations won’t be sent into the chute Amazon is making good after killing copies of 1984 for the Kindle. As you recall, Amazon had to recall the electronic version of the book for copyright reasons. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Big Amazon Will Give You Back Your Copies of 1984, Annotations Won’t Be Sent Into the Chute

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:19:54 +0000

[...] Amazon is making good after killing copies of 1984 for the Kindle. As you recall, Amazon had to recall the electronic version of the book for copyright reasons. [...]

By: Big Amazon Will Give You Back Your Copies of 1984, Annotations Won’t Be Sent Into the Chute

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:41:57 +0000

[...] Amazon is making good after killing copies of 1984 for the Kindle. As you recall, Amazon had to recall the electronic version of the book for copyright reasons. [...]

By: Big Amazon Will Give You Back Your Copies of 1984, Annotations Won’t Be Sent Into the Chute

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:52:28 +0000

[...] Amazon is making good after killing copies of 1984 for the Kindle. As you recall, Amazon had to recall the electronic version of the book for copyright reasons. [...]

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:03:40 +0000

hmm… what if you copied 1984 from project gutenerg and paid the $0.10 to have it downloaded to your kindle from there? Would Amazon be libel since they provided the service?

American Laws are driving me nuts. Anyone who is halfway intelligent can see that most of the crap is totally ridiculous.

By: Mark Harrison

Mark Harrison — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:36:18 +0000

A number of analogies have been made with “receiving stolen property.”

I’m no expert on the US, but here in the UK, if you receive stolen property, then a COURT can order you to return it, even if you purchased it in good faith.

However, the seller can’t just come round to your house and take it.

I’m not aware that Amazon received any court order to do this.

Now, you may say that the Amazon T&Cs allow them to do this without notice. In which case, this isn’t a legal argument – it’s a “Do I want to enter into a contract that gives one party such huge rights” argument.

And for me, as someone who spends £2-3,000 a year on books ($4-5,000), the answer is clearly “no.”

By: Riley

Riley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:01:26 +0000

well that was a delicious false alarm
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1468931/amazon-ban-1984

By: Riley

Riley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:58:42 +0000

oh nevermind
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1468931/amazon-ban-1984

By: Riley

Riley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:00:31 +0000

ohhh the irony. it makes me cry. *see psp homebrew arms race and sony BMG rootkit for details*
it’s sad when we have to evaluate which company gives us less DRM and big-brother like supervision.

By: Riley

Riley — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:57:10 +0000

for some reason, this just seems to iconic to be actual censorship, my guess is that it is a political statement or something similar, if I am wrong (I really hope not) then to hell with amazon.

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Big Amazon Is Watching You! « Around The Sphere — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:48:50 +0000

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By: TibTV » Blog Archive » Amazon, Why Don’t You Come In Our Houses And Burn Our Books Too?

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:34:11 +0000

[...] and our own CrunchGear have it right in pointing out the parallels between a move like this and Orwell’s own novels [...]

By: Knoxville Cabling Company

Knoxville Cabling Company — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:19:52 +0000

I heard about this on Kim Commando this morning, its gonna be real hard to keep track of digital copies of books…they are gonna have to have some sort of digital sig. to keep track of them.

By: Amazon accused of ‘Big-Brother behaviour’ after deleting 1984 « Callsign Snoopys Doghouse

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:05:20 +0000

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By: TheTechnologySources.com » Blog Archive » Amazon, Why Don’t You Come In Our Houses And Burn Our Books Too?

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:04:18 +0000

[...] in ways they don’t like — that is to say, on mobile devices. Laughable. Pogue and our own CrunchGear have it right in pointing out the parallels between a move like this and Orwell’s own novels [...]

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