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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."
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.
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.