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Amazon Gets Sued over 1984 Incident

Posted by Chris Monty in August 1st 2009  

A few weeks ago, we detailed how Amazon had deleted George Orwell’s classic 1984 from users’ Kindles after the company realized that the copies it  sold were unauthorized.
Now Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon over the incident.
Mr. Gawronski has filed a class action lawsuit in Seattle against Amazon.  Gawronski claims that the company illegally accessed his [...]

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Tags: 1984, Amazon Kindle, George Orwell, Justin Gawronski, Lawsuits, Seattle

Amazon Goes Big Brother, Deletes Unauthorized 1984 from Kindles

Posted by Chris Monty in July 18th 2009  

Amazon has pulled a true “Big Brother” by deleting Kindle versions of the George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm from the Kindles of users who had already paid for the books.  Nice.
To be fair, we should point out that these were unauthorized versions of the books, contrary to what some other sources are [...]

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Tags: 1984, Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Animal Farm, Big Brother, George Orwell, WTF

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