Amazon has been sued this week by 17-yr old Justin D. Gawronski, a high school student who says the e-tailer's controversial removal of George Orwell's classic 1984 e-book from Kindle readers caused him to lose all his notes he had taken on the book for an assignment at school.
The suit, if successful, will prevent Amazon from ever remotely deleting e-books from the Kindle. Gawronski ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Tarsellis: Boy, I can't think of a more perfect example of why I don't want a kindle, and why i don't believe in centralized storage of information. Reminds me of a great line, "And now, for a taste of things to come"! Anybody else see where this is headed? Anybody else a student of history and see a few small similarities to, I dunno, say Nazi Germany, and the post-Weimar republic?!
Ya I mean can you imagin 50 years from now nothing physical is sold its all data(media/information wise) the right of the individual to share or archive is equated with meth trading and sells.
Government through business or just pure business interests can warp and shape not only information but current history simply making things dissapper. This is one of many reasons why Corporate should not have a iron tight lock of distribution of media and information, profit is the only thing that should be locked..
Wow... but really ebook readers?? Just stick to books the screens are only messing up your eyes in the long run any way. Ugh if you want to read ebooks use a modern day phone with adobe reader installed on it.
