<story><title>Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle</title><url>http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frossie</author><text>I actually had to check it wasn&apos;t April 1st. Oh the irony indeed. On the plus side:&lt;p&gt;1. This might focus people&apos;s attentions on the problems of buying DRM books - I am still astonished how little it bothers people.&lt;p&gt;2. For the love of all your deities, can we &lt;i&gt;please&lt;/i&gt; revisit copyright laws. The man has been dead for 59 years. Surely we can all agree those books should be public domain by now. Death+70 is just too long.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>This has turned out to be overblown, as usual. More info here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/drm/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218501227&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/drm/showAr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somebody (third-party) decided to sell 1984 and Animal Farm on the Kindle Store without owning the copyright to it. Amazon is of course forced to take down said illegal posting. The only questionable part here is whether or not they should be allowed to delete purchased copies (with refund).</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle</title><url>http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frossie</author><text>I actually had to check it wasn&apos;t April 1st. Oh the irony indeed. On the plus side:&lt;p&gt;1. This might focus people&apos;s attentions on the problems of buying DRM books - I am still astonished how little it bothers people.&lt;p&gt;2. For the love of all your deities, can we &lt;i&gt;please&lt;/i&gt; revisit copyright laws. The man has been dead for 59 years. Surely we can all agree those books should be public domain by now. Death+70 is just too long.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olefoo</author><text>Death plus 70 is just one instance of laws being purchased by special interests; and that is a tough problem.</text></comment>