Quote:
Originally Posted by HansTWN
So that means you have to face the important moral question --- would you delete the file yourself? Immediately?
|
Actually, I completly agree that the right thing to do, would they have told customers in advance, would indeed be to delete the file (and considering the refund, repurchasing the book would have taken minutes). As to whether all customers would have done it is another question. But at least it would not have left so many people with a pit in their stomach at the thought their device and its content is not private (note I don't use the word "owned").
By the way, considering Amazon has stated that, should the situation occur again, they would not repeat the deletions, I think it is fair to say that they themselves have agreed it was wrong. As a result, I'd like to point out that should it occur again, chances are they will go this way, asking customers to delete. Unless anyone else can offer a practical alternative.
An additional thought: having a copy of this book on your Kindle is wrong. Fair enough. But it is not up to Amazon to decide whether or not any file on my Kindle is legal, and it is certainly not up to them to enforce the law. Amazon is not the law, and it was I dislike what happened so much about what happened. I really do not want to live in a world where corporations can decide what is right and what is wrong AND enforce their point of views. What's next? Operating systems that can be searched remotely to check the hardd rives? Auto deletion of any file that does not fit certain criteria??? I'm not being hysterical here: what happened is just a very small tiny step, but it was definitly in the wrong direction.