01-06-2012, 05:11 AM | #16 |
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01-09-2012, 11:55 AM | #17 | |
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That would be illegal, of course. By law, if you didn't agree to it in advance, it's free. |
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01-09-2012, 12:42 PM | #18 |
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I actually found it amusing, since the New York Times erroneously sent millions of nytimes.com users a home subscription cancellation notice that same week. Many of them (including me) were not home subscribers to begin with.
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01-09-2012, 01:04 PM | #19 |
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Are you referring to the ebook that Amazon pulled from its shelves because it turned out to be an illegal copy? I remember there was a big stink about it at the time since some people had paid for the book and there was the matter of being reimbursed not to mention notified that said book wasn't a legal copy and was going to be pulled.
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01-09-2012, 02:15 PM | #22 | |
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That was what made it such a big deal. Well, that, and it was a very slow news day. (And, if you really dig for facts, it turns out it was probably mostly Amazon's fault for a broken system of filtering what could be sold where. The company that put the book up for sale was Canadian, where it was in the public domain, and they said they'd marked it as for sale in Canada only, but Amazon's servers offered it up in the US as well.) |
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01-09-2012, 03:36 PM | #23 | |
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As for the book stealing, if Amazon wants to give me 30 bucks every time they steal a book, I'll let them steal all of mine. |
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01-09-2012, 04:29 PM | #24 |
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[QUOTE=pidgeon92;1916924]Yes, and it should have been the person who tried to profit from something that wasn't theirs.QUOTE]
Actually, the company that did it was operating entirely legally in Canada, where the books in question are not longer under copyright. |
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They can do it again if they want, because I've liberated my copies of 1984 and Animal Farm
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01-10-2012, 02:00 AM | #27 |
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Just as well Much Ado About Nothing is in the public domain or this thread would be in serious trouble.
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01-10-2012, 11:59 AM | #28 | |
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(Amazon has a history from Day One of being, in my humble, entirely unsupported opinion, sleasy. They went from being a good idea to one of the most successful online businesses, in part, from spamming the living hell out of any email address they could find, especially their own customers. It was with great apparent reluctance - under intense pressure from the public - that they introduced account settings that let you opt out of ads, and then started periodically resetting them all to "spam the hell out of me until the heat death of the universe" every few months or so. To many, they are still Spamazon because of this.) |
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Edit: Also, what spam is Amazon supposedly burying people in? They sure don't send much of anything to me, aside from order receipts, and they've had my email for years. Last edited by carld; 01-10-2012 at 12:08 PM. |
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