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Originally Posted by crich70
Ah so it was a jurisdictional foul up based on copyright law as pertaining geographical differences as well then. Proof that there should be a universal copyright law perhaps. I agree it wasn't right for Amazon to just pull books remotely like they did though it's a moot point in the case of 1984 since they did do it. Hopefully the resulting backlash will have persuaded them not to do so again anyway.
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Given the circumstances, since they had the
ability to do so, they didn't have much choice, legally. Amazon's real mistake was lying about having the ability - when they introducted the Kindle, part of the online chatter was over whether you would be buying or renting books on it. And Amazon made it clear that once you bought the book, it was yours. They lied.
(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.)