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Old 01-18-2012, 12:06 PM   #115
taustin
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The legal question is if such agreements are entirely legal. Some rights you cannot just "sign away".
Not really. It all depends on how the contract is written. Amazon's legal mistake in the Orwell books was not in the remote deleting, but in violating their own terms of service, and false advertising. Had they been up front about the ability, and included a provision for doing so in their terms of service, there would have been no legal issue. (The PR issue is another matter entirely.)

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Anyway, since we have Apprentice Alf watching our backs we can avoid a lot of the problems that we as readers might run into with the "license" setup.
That you have the ability doesn't make it legal.

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Although it would be wrong to take your money back AND keep your backup copy of the book.
No one has suggested otherwise. You're tilting at straw men here.
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