{"id":2742,"date":"2009-08-02T08:09:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2009-08-02T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:17:33","slug":"it-aint-easy-being-a-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2742","title":{"rendered":"It ain&#8217;t easy being a dictator&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amazon is <\/strong>being sued for remotely deleting copies of George Orwell&#8217;s <em>1984 <\/em>from Kindles. It later explained the action was taken because the copy in question was provided by a third party that did not have the right to sell it. Read the full story at <a title=\"Amazon sued\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/internetNews\/idUSTRE56U72A20090731\" target=\"_self\">Reuters<\/a>. It seems that in one of the cases it deleted a student&#8217;s &#8216;copious&#8217; notes with the eBook.<\/p>\n<p>This will be an interesting case to follow because it really deals with the question of ownership. The offended Kindle-user bought the eBook for <strong>.99<\/strong> in good faith with a reasonable expectation that he would have access to the information. He was never given a reason for the deletion or provided a replacement. The question is, does Amazon have the right to delete or effectively &#8216;destroy&#8217; someone&#8217;s property? If I committed such an act it would be called theft or vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>If Amazon doesn&#8217;t have the right to act on property it sells, then one could argue that Amazon does not have the right to dictate what an individual does with his\/her property after the sale.<\/p>\n<p>So one has to wonder if digitally locking and restricting access to\u00c2\u00a0 digital property is legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is being sued for remotely deleting copies of George Orwell&#8217;s 1984 from Kindles. It later explained the action was taken because the copy in question was provided by a third party that did not have the right to sell it. Read the full story at Reuters. It seems that in one of the cases &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2742\">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":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742"}],"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=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}