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Originally Posted by jhowell
Under the "Buy now with 1-Click" button it states "By clicking the above button, you agree to the Kindle Store Terms of Use" and that links to a page which states in part "Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider." |
A license does not give the grantor the authority to do whatever they want whenever they want. Does the Amazon license say something like
"By purchasing this license, you agree that Amazon can remove this content from your device unilaterally for any reason they choose". I kind of doubt that. When you license something, there are terms that both the licensee and the grantor are expected to follow. The grantor does not have carte blanche to do whatever they want.
Not that the above matters in the case we are discussing. If Amazon removes content from your device that you didn't get from them, and thus no license from them is involved, under what legal premise do they claim they get to remove that content? There would have to be some kind of clause in the Kindle hardware/firmware "license" that says
"By connecting this device to the internet, you agree to allow it to connect to Amazon servers and for Amazon to modify/delete any of its contents, including non-Amazon content, if said content contains the letters E B O and K".
Knowing Amazon, the above clause probably DOES exist in small print on line 9247 of the purchase/license agreement.