07-17-2009, 08:50 PM | #31 |
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I had a feeling this was the case (illegitimate copy on Amazon). I'm thinking they need to at least attempt to screen books that are uploaded, and they wouldn't have this problem.
But I still have to chuckle a little at the fact it was Orwell's books. |
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But, you're right, I am confused. Were these legal books or not? Edit: Okay, looks like lilac_jive's post above me answered my question. Illegitimate uploads deleted by Amazon, that I have no problem with. |
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07-17-2009, 08:54 PM | #33 |
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Not legal in the US. It would have been a pretty big deal if they (the true owners of the copyright) had released the ebooks for purchase in the US. It's public domain in Canada though. I think the writer of the article is confused. It's probably it was a publisher who put it up, but not the copyright holder.
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07-17-2009, 09:35 PM | #35 |
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I'm checking out the comments on this story on fark.com right now, and it's disappointing to see the number of people saying they'll never buy a Kindle because of this. But likely when they say Kindle, they mean every ebook reader.
*sigh* Seriously amazon, get your crap together and start checking ebook submissions. This is pretty bad press. |
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What happens if you have downloaded 1984 to your computer? Can you add it back to your Kindle?
Sorry if this has been answered anywhere else. I looked, promise. |
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I think it's unrealistic to expect Amazon or any distributor to verify that a publisher has the legal right to publish a book. And FYI, the copyright owner of any book is the author or the author's estate, until the book goes into public domain. At least in the US. |
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07-18-2009, 03:21 AM | #38 | |
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Amazon is not the Police
Normally the Police / Bailiffs will come with a court warrant to confiscate stolen goods and return to there rightful owner.
If a car dealer finds out that he accidentally sold a stolen car then he can't come to your premises, break the garage and take the car back either. |
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Because the word "fence" (as in a garden fence) is an abbreviated form of "defence", and "fence" as "a receiver of stolen goods" is thieves' slang dating from around 1700, with a meaning of receiving goods under the defence of secrecy.
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07-18-2009, 05:02 AM | #42 | |
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But even if something slips through, reaching into your device and removing the file without your approval, is not the solution. It is in fact outrageous, and if viewed as "hacking," it is also criminal. Again, unlike the theft of physical objects, the fact that honest purchasers have the files they paid for, does not deprive the copyright owner of their possession of the work. If the copyright owner decides to go after Amazon for the profits of the sales, it would be fine. If the copyright owner, and/or Amazon decide to go after the infringing "publisher," it would be fine also. But gaining access to innocent purchasers' devices, to remove content they have paid for, doesn't pass the smell test. Funny, before I got my two Kindles, I actually had a much higher regard for Amazon, and made a large portion of my purchases through them. Now, because of stuff like this, I am more apt to explore alternatives. Last edited by Sonist; 07-18-2009 at 05:05 AM. |
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I'm not defending Amazon here, but a database of all copyrighted works would be extremely large, and IMO it's not realistic to expect a company to check all the material sold against it. Also, that only covers "not in public domain" material. There is no way to verify that the publisher providing the material has the rights to publish the material. The author is the copyright holder of a work of fiction; authors grant a temporary (usually temporary) license to publish in certain formats (print, audio, electronic, serialization, etc) and languages to different publishers. Amazon would have no way of knowing that author ABC had granted their electronic rights to title JKY to company XYZ for the period of date n to date p. Some of my personal contracts are as short as 2 years. It's asking a lot of any company to track every author's contracts. I'm not an attorney, but I do understand quite a bit about intellectual property, copyright, and publishing law. IMO Amazon has greater liability if they don't remove the illegal content from Kindles where possible. They have the means to remove content sold illegally, and this fact is widely known; it's likely any cease & desist letter Amazon received also included a demand to remove the content from any customers it had been sold to, if possible. I agree it's creepy that they can remove content, and I personally don't want a company monitoring what's on my eReader. I put gawdawful first drafts of novels in progress on there, after all. Last edited by doreenjoy; 07-18-2009 at 05:59 AM. |
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07-18-2009, 05:57 AM | #44 |
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After a quick look at Kindle DX firmware, it seems to be relatively simple to disable deletion part of "todo" processing and probably "device monitoring" part as well (Kindle seems to upload contents of /var/log/messages regulary). Although I cannot really be 100% sure as it's hard to test..
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They are not "monitoring what's on your eReader". They are sending a command to delete a specific book to those specific devices to which their database shows the book to have been have sent. This seems entirely reasonable to me in situations where it turns out that the material has been illegally sold.
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