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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."
We are dealing with a high school kid who owns a kindle and was using it for school. While it is possible that kid actually earned the $500 to buy it himself, I'm probably not alone in finding that unlikely.
What a surprise that he found money to hire a lawyer as well. I wonder if he got around to actually reading a print copy of 1984 in the meantime, or if his school is going to let him skip the test while he waits for his lawyer to find a judge willing to hear his case.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Sounds religious which may mean republican which, if they'd stuck to their guns, would definitely have 1984 required as it is a book against big government. Sadly, religion and republicanism came closer than they doth want, and made both mad.
"...permission from my father to allow her to request that I read it."
There, fixed that for ya.
There are only 6,863,795,529 types of people in the world.
Sort of funny I was modded Troll (which I deserved I think even though I didn't actually expect any replies) but you were modded flamebait. Makes me wonder what the difference is...
Anyway, I generalized...I took the "conservative, rural" and interpolated to "religious, republican" which in most cases is accurate. And yes it's a bit smug and certainly cynical, but we're all, conservative, liberal, republican, and democrat, still recovering from Bush's reign so I'm entitled to cynicism here. :-)
in 1984, the enemy of the state the hero lives in is simultaneously everywhere and all powefull, yet completely defeatable by the states armies, but to defeat the enemy, and prevent his literaly brutish attacks that might strike anywhere, you have to give up all freedom.
it is very close to bush cheney strategy after 9 11
...Steve Jobs!
Why else would he put iSight cameras into everything?