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Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions
Stupified writes "High school student Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon for deleting his Kindle copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four (complaint, PDF), because doing so destroyed the annotations he'd created to the text for class. The complaint states: 'The notes are still accessible on the Kindle 2 device in a file separate from the deleted book, but are of no value. For example, a note such as "remember this paragraph for your thesis" is useless if it does not actually reference a specific paragraph.' The suit, which is seeking class action status, asks that Amazon be legally blocked from improperly accessing users' Kindles in the future and punitive damages for those affected by the deletion. Nothing in Amazon's EULA or US copyright law gives them permission to delete books off your Kindle, so this sounds like a plausible suit."
Any class that leads into a career in politics.
Only it's not "required reading" per se, more like a text-book.
The irony that Orwell's 1984 describes "Children Heroes" who snitch on grown-ups is tasting sweeter with every passing moment.
My Modern British Literature high school class had it as required reading.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
No, that's the procedure for when they sell a paper copy of Fahrenheit 451 illegally.
How many possible "ate my homework" jokes can we go for here:
"The Kindle ate my homework."
"Jeff Bezos ate my homework."
"If there is hope for my homework, it lies with the proles."
"We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of 1984. The users and readers have been cast out. And the poisonous weeds of note-taking have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every student rejoice!...We are one Amazon. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall read themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own Kindle! We shall prevail!" [too obscure?]
come on an chime in!
It shows in the updated reading list that your school has never read 1984 and has always been assigned I Am the Cheese.
If he looses he will become an un-person and all traces of him will cease to exist.
It wasn't deleted. It never existed. He must have imagined it.
Also, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
If he looses he will become an un-person and all traces of him will cease to exist.
Yes, but what will happen if he loses?
The nice thing about being assigned Catcher in the Rye is that it gives you context when you have to deal with people who were moved by it.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I don't even read the comments. I just scroll to the bottom to check out witty quotation.
Be gone from my sight or prepare to feel my flaming wraith!
Idiot, illiterate mods. If he had read and understood the book he wouldn't have bothered with the lawsuit. Winston loved Big Brother at the end.
"Given that I haven't heard about any of their executives rampaging through the streets leaving trails of bodies"
That's because they deleted the book on it.
There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
I Am the Cheese is from Eastasia.
I Am the Cheese has always been from Eastasia.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
are they going to break into my house and burn my copy?
You're thinking of a related trial that's ongoing in the state of California for San Bernadino County v. Guy Montag. The fire in question seems to have done irreparable damage to all notes that were made in the margins of his books, too.
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You're forgetting about the "Take Your Stinking Paws Off Of Mickey Mouse, You Dirty Ape" Copyright Extension Act of 2022, which will extend US copyrights until one hundred years after the death of the last surviving family member of the creator.
But will it run Linux?
Sorry, I didn't even bother to read the title. What's this discussion about?
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
After the JavaScript finishes, I barely have time for the headline!
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
I agree with a lot of what you say but unfortunately it turns out you're a twat. I'd love to come in and help you out but, here but my PC says you're a twat and it won't let me override (some dll error). It keeps printing up this message:
"SIG = "This video reveals Obama's Real Agenda in his own words - foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=7478735" POSTER IS MASSIVE TWAT - UNABLE TO AGREE"
So my hands are tied. Good luck, though.
YOU MASSIVE TWAT (That wasn't me, 'twas my PC).