Apparently, the publisher [Amazon] changed its mind about having electronic versions of Orwell's books. So Amazon removed them from the store and in the process remotely deleted the books from the Kindles of anyone who bought them, depositing a refund in their account in the process.
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akf
14 years 39 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago
correction
correction: the publisher is not Amazon, but Amazon removed it because the publisher decided so.
see also:
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-th...
lozz
14 years 39 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago
Big Brother "rarity"?
Amazon calls this type of behaviour a "rarity". Theft might be a more accurate description.
Microsoft, also, engages in this sort of remote interference with their client's computers.
This is the greatest argument against adopting so-called "cloud computing". Your data is at the mercy of any self-styled, Big Brother, who is in a position to interfere with it.