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I'm not arguing copyright laws or if IP is even a valid concept. My personal view is that life + 25 years is more than sufficient. But I live in a country where corporations are considered to have almost all the rights of individuals and with deep pockets make the law.
Amazon (or any company) is not going to enter people's homes to remove books that violate copyright. At most they might request that the book be returned (on their dime) and refund the purchase price.
I can bet you that if Sony or any other company could remove books from their device, the same would happen.
I'm simply tired of seeing any company slammed for upholding the law. Sure, Amazon could have handled the 1984 (and Ayn Rand) situation better. Simply removing the ability to download the book and emailing customers about the situation and requesting that they delete the book would've made customers happier. Since Amazon has the ability to remove their books they used it in this case. As long as it the deletions stay limited to copyright violations I don't see it as a problem. That's simply my opinion.
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