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Jul. 21st, 2009 01:35 pmA short but interesting article on the way Amazon.com remotely removed copies of Orwell novels from peoples' Kindles over at Balkinization: http://balkin.blogspot.com/2009/07/control-at-distance.html.
...[W]hen you purchase an e-book, what you really purchase is merely a license to store the an electronic copy on the Kindle's hard drive according to end user license agreement that Amazon provides.... So even though you think you own the e-book on your Kindle, Amazon can, through the Kindle licensing agreement, reserve the right to remove it or modify it if it cannot obtain the rights or the rights change, as they did in the case of the Orwell books.
...[W]hen you purchase an e-book, what you really purchase is merely a license to store the an electronic copy on the Kindle's hard drive according to end user license agreement that Amazon provides.... So even though you think you own the e-book on your Kindle, Amazon can, through the Kindle licensing agreement, reserve the right to remove it or modify it if it cannot obtain the rights or the rights change, as they did in the case of the Orwell books.
