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Originally Posted by rcuadro
Though I do not condone what Amazon did... it is sad the world that we live in when a lost set of notes can be worth $150k...
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I disagree with you on this. Amazon didn't only destroy a set of notes, they actually destroyed the work of someone. There's an element of intellectual property attached to the notes a student takes when he's working on some project.
I think Amazon settled because they knew damn well it would have cost them much more in court. They also wanted to avoid any legal ruling stating they're not allowed to delete books from their customer's Kindles.
I can't believe it would only be a coincidence that this comes at just about the same time Amazon published a new TOS or something stating that they will delete books under certain circumstances.
And with all that said..............................the student in question is a bit of an idiot because if these notes were so important they should have been backed up somewhere. He could have dropped is Kindle, lose it, it could have been stolen or abducted by aliens from planet liseuse. Point is, there's dozens of different ways he could have lost them. He should have had a copy.