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Originally Posted by Alfy
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.
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But if it was, as they said, a matter of their refund system automatically deleting then it wasn't necessarily them deciding to enforce the law. I've had a few books without DRM on my Kindle that are not available without DRM. They're all books I acquired legally. I removed the DRM and format shifted them for my own personal use but Amazon would have no way of knowing that. They could be pirated for all they know. So far, it's looking like they're not paying attention to what I have on my Kindle aside from the content I purchase through them, annotations and bookmarks. This may change of course. If it does, I'll be looking for another shop.