The RISK that is Amazon's Kindle [telecom]

Not a direct telecom issue, but very, very, close ------- summary: Due to some legal and copyright issue whose specifics aren't quite clear yet, Amazon _deleted_ copies of "books" that people had already downloaded.

Eyup. Not future copies, but ones you had already purhcased and downloaded.

(Now how many people even knew that could happen?).

In a unique bit of irony, the books in question included a version of... "1984".

one story among many, many, others:

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Posted 5 years ago by danny burstein in General Telecommunications Forum

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