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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."
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. :-)