Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 31, 2009 @04:28AM from the incident-that-will-not-stay-down-the-memory-hole dept.

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."

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Not only does Amazon EULA covers this, but by Phizzle · 2009-07-31 05:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

it also gives them rights to insert a wide range of vegetables into their subscribers anuses... People should really read before clicking the NEXT/OK button.

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Re:They didn't have the right to sell it... by Ambiguous+Coward · 2009-07-31 05:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Reading is HARD. :(

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