{"id":1662,"date":"2009-04-17T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2009-04-17T06:45:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T11:45:30","slug":"more-consumer-control-from-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"More Consumer Control from Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone please tell me how the behavior of this &#8216;legitimate&#8217; corporate entity\u00c2\u00a0is more benevolent, more creator and consumer sensitive than the torrent services offered at Pirate Bay?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting story follows\u00c2\u00a0 exposing Amazon&#8217;s ulterior motives for Digital Rights Management and their <em>Whispernet<\/em>. I think we&#8217;ve all dated a control-freak like this.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows an individual who was buying eBooks remotely from Amazon.com, and returning items he was unhappy with. Amazon thought his return-rate was too high so they suspended his Kindle account effectively wrecking half the <strong>$359 Amazon Kindle <\/strong>eBook Reader&#8217;s functionality.\u00c2\u00a0 Read the whole shocking story at Gizmodo <a title=\"Who's the pirate?\" href=\"http:\/\/i.gizmodo.com\/5214546\/surprise-if-your-amazon-account-dies-it-takes-your-kindle-with-it\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. I mean, the guy bought their machine&#8230;and then they put the boots to him, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>While reading this article repeat the words:<em> Pirate Bay! Pirate Bay!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Little wonder file sharing is such a roaring success. Amazon&#8217;s as much as promoting it here.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7668795789683211\";\n\/* ebookrumors1 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8573945280\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone please tell me how the behavior of this &#8216;legitimate&#8217; corporate entity\u00c2\u00a0is more benevolent, more creator and consumer sensitive than the torrent services offered at Pirate Bay? Interesting story follows\u00c2\u00a0 exposing Amazon&#8217;s ulterior motives for Digital Rights Management and their Whispernet. I think we&#8217;ve all dated a control-freak like this. The story follows an individual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1662\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,4,8,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}