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Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-been-sorry-about-erasing-1984 dept.

levicivita writes "From the down-but-not-out NYT comes an article (warning: login may be required) about user backlash against Kindle's embedded DRM: 'Last week, Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive of Amazon, offered an apparently heartfelt and anguished mea culpa to customers whose digital editions of George Orwell's "1984" were remotely deleted from their Kindle reading devices. Though copies of the books were sold by a bookseller that did not have legal rights to the novel, Mr. Bezos wrote on a company forum that Amazon's "'solution' to the problem was stupid, thoughtless and painfully out of line with our principles."' Bezos's post is here."

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  1. It would be 1984 by JohnHegarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would be 1984 they do this to. To quote Bart Simpson "The ironing is delicious".

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  2. Re:Amazon's solution was: by tygerstripes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Double-plus-ironic.

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  3. Clowning around by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 1, Funny

    Perhaps it's my advanced state of sleeplessness, but I swear I just read that as 'Bozo Offers Apology for Erasing 1984.' Anyways, an apology is hardly going to rebuild the trust he lost with his Kindle customers through these actions. He has made Amazon.com the laughing stock of the industry!

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  4. Re:how would damages exceed your purchase price? by langelgjm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe I'm wrong, and at the purchase of every book there is an Eula that says they get to fuck you in the ass and have the resulting baby from it too.

    Ah, the sad state of sex education today...

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  5. Re:Responsibility to customers by JJJK · · Score: 2, Funny

    no, no... you'll have a genuine advantage, just like with that amazing tool from microsoft