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Originally Posted by pwalker8
We go through this on a regular basis. Just because Amazon or any other company says something in their T&C doesn't make it true or legally binding. Companies claim all sorts of rights and privileges all the time. People simply assume that since a company asserts something, it must be correct.
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That comment was in response to a question about where the claims about licenses vs purchases come from and how amazon gets that by consumers without interrupting the purchase experience. Btw, most of these conditions were crafted by publishers who absolutely hate ebooks and digital media in general as the technology disrupted their status quo dominance relative to the authors.
Obviously, T&C like these or EULAs for that matter haven't been really been legally tested in a court. It is not yet a big enough problem for customers to challenge, and just a matter of time before something blows up and its status gets confirmed one way or the other, or the net result may be some new regulation.