Amazon Faces a Fight Over Its E-Books – NYTimes.com
Corporations must be thrilled with the coming generations who seem to be willing to just lie down and be walked all over. As an example, the last graph of a story about Amazon.com, deleting legally purchased Orwell books and DRM in the NYTimes:
“I’d like to live in a perfect world where I own this content and can do whatever I want with it,” said Justin Gawronski, a high school student whose copy of “1984” was erased by Amazon, but who recently declined when a lawyer asked him to join a class-action lawsuit over the incident. Mr. Gawronski said, “This is probably going to happen again and we just have to learn to live with it.”
Just roll over and give up. It’s just that easy in the Information Age. And won’t those in power be happy with that!
via Amazon Faces a Fight Over Its E-Books – NYTimes.com.
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July 28th, 2009 07:54
As a copyright holder I am pleased that amazon took the action they did. When amazon was informed that one of their vendors was selling material which they did not have the rights to sell, amazon did what the rights holder requested plus they refunded their clients’ money.
Who is the one willing to roll over? If something you had worked long and hard on suddenly appeared for sale on amazon with no money coming to you, are you really telling me you would roll over and let amazon continue selling it?
July 28th, 2009 08:16
I am a copyright holder myself and I don’t want Amazon to continue selling items they don’t have the rights to but the consumers were punished. Amazon sold the content and should be held liable for the damages. Had they sold an actual paperback book, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation because they could not and would not even consider going into someone’s home and taking that book back and leaving cash on the table for it.
My position is simply that the people who bought these books did so in good faith. Amazon, when it was informed of the problem by the legal rights holders, should have immediately stopped selling the content, apologized, paid any damages due and figured out a way to keep the same problem from occurring again. Instead, the consumers paid the price and that’s not right. It’s not in this article, but the kid that is quoted above had all of his notes for class that HE CREATED erased as well. He was not compensated for that. And he is willing to just let that happen? That’s pretty sad.
July 29th, 2009 08:10
i agree. that’s incredibly sad.