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Originally Posted by emellaich
If we want to have a detailed discussion of what actually happened in the 1984 situation we can, although its been done quite thoroughly in the past. Troll like behavior involves waving a red flag with no substance, just trying to get a reaction.
If you want to talk about the difficulties of getting library books onto the Kindle then you have an issue that indicates why someone might want a Sony instead. On the other hand, complaining about 'evil Amazon stealing our 1984' is just trying to raise tempers. It would be funny to compare the 'evil Amazon' comments from the 1984 debate with the 'evil Amazon' comments from the public domain books on Amazon brouhaha.
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If you read the thread in question you will see that the 1984 incident only came up because someone said that there was no way that Amazon could ever even see what you are reading on your Kindle, never mind remove books from it. The fact remains that they built that capability into the Kindle and have used it in the past, so that proves it is entirely possible. Now it turns out that the person who said it wasn't possible did in fact know that it had happened.