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Originally Posted by Quoth
After the Orwell fiasco they promised to never remotely delete ever.
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I have been trying to find exactly what Amazon promised when that happened in 2009. So far I have only found quotes from an email sent by Drew Herdener of Amazon mentioned in various articles published at the time. For example
this one from the New York Times.
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An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, said in an e-mail message that the books were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function. "When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers," he said.
Amazon effectively acknowledged that the deletions were a bad idea. "We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances," Mr. Herdener said.
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That statement is pretty far from "never remotely delete ever". Do you have any other references to quotes from Amazon on this subject?