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Originally Posted by Gideon
Well, we shouldn't be declaring any particular case right or wrong. We don't know.
But assuming good faith... doesn't hurt.
And yeah.. Bob, people are going to get caught in this (like you, like this customer, etc.) that don't necessarily deserve it. Fortunately, most of us can live without shopping at one particular store.
You can still put stuff on your Kindle as well. Plenty doesn't have DRM already. But yes, it's a mess and that's why DRM is so bad and your further options would be severely limited and Amazon has really been a jerk about this DMCA stuff. I'm not trying to defend it - I think DRM is terrible. But the fire and pitchforks attitude some people are taking on isn't exactly becoming, either.
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Sure, but revoking access to your Kindle account and, as such, the books you've purchased through it, is analogous to saying "we're no longer accepting you as a customer, and we require you to return any items bought from our store to us without giving you a refund for them.
Preempting the "you're really buying a licence" argument, you had no expectation that that clause would ever be invoked, nor has that clause been tested to see if it actually holds up in court. EULAs are nice, but their legality and reach only goes so far (although they seem to go further in the US than they do in Europe).