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Originally Posted by akira28
No, that is not correct. They were protecting themselves from distributing content without the right to do so.
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I would question that they actually were protecting themselves. All they needed to do for self protection was to remove the item from their estore. What they were doing was setting a precedent - that
your Kindle is really
their property and therefore they can do with it as they wish. They are still liable for the illegal sales just as a paper book store would be. In fact, it could be argued that they were guilty of receiving (and then selling) stolen property. The fact that they did not know that the property was stolen is immaterial. They had already committed the illegal act.
If a store had improperly sold a hard copy of a book to you and had more copies on their shelves, I doubt that you would grant them the right to enter your library, take the book back and leave cash equivalent to the book's purchase price.
There is a very important concept here & that is where does the store's right/obligation end and yours begin. Amazon is saying that they own those rights and that you do not. If they are allowed to "get away" with this (theft) then we each will have lost a little more of our personal freedoms.