Quote:
Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
I noticed that a lot of people assume that he did something to get his account locked...but Amazon did offer/give him an Amazon gift card to re-purchase items and they encouraged him to open a new account. That sounds to me as if they felt that someone else hacked his account and they closed it.
|
That also seems likely. But the key problem is that the person who listed the complaint was very likely omitting lots of relevant data. Odds are pretty slim that Amazon randomly locked an account, and categorically refused to clean it up.
Even with that caveat, this is a general problem facing all sorts of digital content. DRM aggravates the issue but is not the exclusive cause. E.g. if I am in Second Life and choose to spend hard currency for in-game content, there is always the risk that my account could be compromised, the game could be hacked, I could invest in digital goods that lose their value, that the game economics could go haywire and ruin my investment, or that Second Lift itself could shut down.
We aren't accustomed to this because we're so used to treating books as durable physical objects, and basically want all the advantages of both physical and electronic mediums -- at a cost lower than what is economically viable.