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10-22-2012, 02:09 PM | #32 | |
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I have not yet wanted to buy a book that Amazon will not deliver to my Kindle. Norwegian publishers don't really sell or even care about e-books, though. That may be why there are so few restrictions on Amazon. |
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10-22-2012, 02:32 PM | #33 |
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10-22-2012, 02:38 PM | #34 | |
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10-22-2012, 02:47 PM | #38 |
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Those e-mails look like boilerplate. When closing down an account and wiping out all downloads the least they can do is provide a reasonable explanation. This Linn, or someone using her account, has obviously done something that is in gross violation of Amazon's ToS, but what and how I guess we will never know.
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And Amazon is not the only company that has this type of attitude. |
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10-22-2012, 02:55 PM | #40 |
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I read about this on an other forum and they were also speculating that she used an illegal vpn-connection to purchase books that she wasn't allowed to purchase from Norway. But we'll probably never know.
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10-22-2012, 03:01 PM | #41 | |
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I never trusted the cloud and certainly never will. It's bad enough that this generation has cataloged itself willingly on Facebook without adding to it the hassle of letting its digital goods in remote places like the cloud, at the mercy and good will of private corporations (and governments ?) which at any time can see, change or delete people's lives
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10-22-2012, 03:18 PM | #42 | |
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Not that I'm saying that she didn't do anything wrong. Just that the VPN theory is not very plausible. |
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10-22-2012, 03:21 PM | #43 | |
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This is really the worst part: the one that speaks of absolute power. Not only providers of DRM'd content (Amazon, in this case) can close your account and delete your purchases because you appear to them to have done something wrong; also, their power over you is so absolute that they are not even required (nor feel the need) to tell you why they are doing this. This is too reminiscent of totalitarian regimes, where the secret police can get you and put you in prison at any time, never telling you what you were accused of :-( |
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10-22-2012, 03:24 PM | #44 |
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It would be nice to know the why, assuming she doesn't know and just isn't sharing the reason. Also why can't they close the account to new purchases, but leave current content accessible?
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10-22-2012, 03:25 PM | #45 |
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That's why i un-drm my books. Shops might close, DRM being software, it can suffer bugs... So many things can go wrong even if no one means harm.
And then there is the very practical issue or reading books with linux. |
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