Thread: Amazon Kindle and DRM Removal...
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Old 02-21-2011, 03:39 PM   #20
grizedale
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
The Harry Potter story sounds like an urban myth to me, but I think anyone emailing pirate books through Amazon is plain daft anyway.
Doing a google search on the removal of HP books from Kindles...

"And some customers have complained of the same experience with Harry Potter books. Amazon says the Kindle versions of all these books were illegal. Someone uploaded bootlegged copies using the Kindle Store's self-publishing system, and Amazon was only trying to look after publishers' intellectual property. "

http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/

New York Times

"Amazon appears to have deleted other purchased e-books from Kindles recently. Customers commenting on Web forums reported the disappearance of digital editions of the Harry Potter books and the novels of Ayn Rand over similar issues."

I can only assume that it was one of these versions that I have gotten hold of that contains the original metadata which reconverting removes...
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