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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. How's it go again ... oh, right, e by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    EatSHITandDIE !!

    And yes, I am deeply heartfelt sorry beyond words for subjecting you to that so let me add

    EAT SHIT AND DIE !!

    1. Re:How's it go again ... oh, right, e by Miseph · · Score: -1, Troll

      Sounds Mexican, I'll bet he's an illegal just here to steal our welfare that requires a legal work history and privatized medicine you can't get for free even as a citizen. Plus, he probably sends his kids to school, the bastard.

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      Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
  2. Re:Responsibility to customers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shitdick.