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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Oh, excuse me!
Their "stupid deletion feature" and the method in which they handled the situation may not be right in your eyes, but it was it mine.
Pray tell......how would YOU have handled it?
Again, the books were uploaded to them ILLEGALLY, the LEGAL owners asked them to remove them, which they did.
AND compensated any buyers.
If you have a problem with their methods, you have a right not to buy their products.
You do NOT have a right to tell ME how I should handle it.
Thats "freedom".
The right to make your own choices.
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You state that Amazon compensated buyers as well as a public apology. Although we hear about the student who had their book deleted as well as their notes, what kind of apology and compensation would you give to say a literature student who had all their notes on the Kindle when the book happened to be deleted with everything in it and that their thesis on this particular book was a major part of their grade or possibility of graduation i.e. doctoral theses/dissertation? I would say that this student was stupid for not having redundant notes placed somewhere else, but alas the damage was done and it will be wholly dependent on the professor/panel whether there would be leniency in a situation such as this.
Freedom means you have the right to make your own choices, even stupid ones. That's my perspective and not yours, but when you make stupid ones over and over again, sooner or later that 'freedom' will only involve stupid choice A, stupid choice B and/or stupid choice C.
The fact that Kindle users
choose to buy the Kindle even with this remote deletion feature amazes me. Their complacency is akin to the passivity of citizens letting Hitler come to power albeit to an extreme.
THEY CHOSE TO BE PASSIVE. Hitler burned books that in his regime were 'illegal contraband'...Amazon already did it. What next? A choice between remote deletion of whole books or something less intrusive such as remote deletion/insertion of specific text? Hey it's a choice is it not?
You are excused.