Amazon $150k payout for student's lost notes

[DawnFalcon]

Originally Posted by Shaggy

I find this the most interesting part:

Yes, it doesn't set a legal precedent. But, if Amazon ever does this again, you can bet that people will be lining up for their $150K payouts. That gives Amazon a LOT of motivation to avoid this scenario in the future.

Yep. And it puts them between a rock and a hard place, they have the demonstrated capacity to delete books, and a rights holder will demand they use it.

MikeL - He might, but the book also went from the PC-based library you had as I understand it.