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Archive for July 21st, 2009

Amazon Kindle – Purchasing A Right To View, Sometimes

Posted by Matt on July 21, 2009

http://volokh.com/posts/1248045949.shtml

Amazon screws up twice: 1- for not having proper controls in place to ensure that only properly licensed material is uploaded to the Kindle Store, and 2- by failing to design controls in the their digital content distribution system to enforce their legal obligations:  apparently when a Kindle book is removed from the central database, all copies of that book out on Kindle user’s devices were also deleted.   It was either a lack of system controls or over-reacting by Amazon management.  This likely violates their own Terms of Service with Kindle users.

Great write up on Volokh.com

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