[TriLUG] [OT] Kindle jeers? [Was e-mail suckback]

[Christopher L Merrill]

Allen Freeman wrote:
> It's not only true, it's already been done. See also: 1984. 

All sarcasm aside, this may not have been handled as well as it could
have been, but this IS the point of DRM.  If you don't like DRM, then
don't buy a device with it.  I guess a lot of people didn't bother to
understand what they were buying (much like the chinese and russians
buying our high-risk mortgages).

The readers essentially purchased stolen goods, through no fault of
their own. When Amazon found that they didn't have the rights to sell
it, they revoked it and refunded the money.  If the police come and
confiscate some stolen property, there is no guarantee you'll get your
money back, depending on where you bought it. So IMO, nobody should
complain too loudly.

I know this is probably an unpopular sentiment, but they chose the
most expedient path to "doing the right thing", IMO - which is to clean
up their mess.  Could they have tried to negotiate a better resolution
and get the rights to it? Maybe. How long would it take? How much would
it cost them? Hard to guess. But IIRC, it was one of their publisher/
partners that made the mistake, not Amazon.  You can hardly blame
Amazon for that.

Just my 2c
Chris


> --- On Thu, 8/6/09, Brian Henning <lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Brian Henning <lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com>
> Subject: [TriLUG] [OT] Kindle jeers?  [Was e-mail suckback]
> To: "TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 12:54 AM
> 
> Hi Gang,
> 
> This recent thread and the mention of Kindle has given me a good setup to
> ask -- what's bad about Kindle?  I was thinking about getting one of the 2G
> models, with their nice slimness and ability to read any TXT or PDF file.
> The implication just now is that Amazon can make unreadble a book you've
> paid for after the fact.  Is that true?
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
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