Amazon Sued By High School student

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thread starter YourPirateGuy Jul 31 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

gizmodo.com said: "Forget blaming it on the dog, thanks to Amazon students have a 21st century excuse for lost homework. When Amazon foolishly yanked 1984 from thousands of Kindles, Justin Gawronski's electronic notes for a summer assignment became useless. Now a class action lawsuit has been filed that seeks punitive damages for those affected by the deletion as well as an injunction that forbids Amazon from improperly accessing Kindles in the future. Granted, after the fallout and subsequent Bezos apology, there probably wasn't much risk of Amazon crossing the line again. Still, I agree that they had this coming. Again, the fact that Orwell's 1984 is at the center of all of this controversy is one of those delicious coincidences that is impossible to ignore. [Trading Markets]" article

sonikuboy 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Can you sum it up, because i cant really understand what happened. Amazon set someones work on fire? :l

MrMojoRisin 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Big Brother is watching.... OT: That's pretty dumb of amazon to do that.

DownTown 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Yeah I don't really get it either. What are kindles? Whats yanking 1984. ?

MrMojoRisin 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

DownTown said: "Yeah I don't really get it either. What are kindles? Whats yanking 1984. ?" He had notes from the book 1984 on Amazon, and they deleted them (which they had no right to), so he sued them. Yanking- pull or take away Please correct me if I'm wrong

lankesh 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

In the article the picture is of some digital thingy that's titled "kindle." So, I'd assume that it contains books/summaries or something on books, and Amazon just decided to remove 1984 from that, making the device useless for said high school student(s).

DownTown 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

So kindle lets you take online notes or something and they deleted it?

ShuraiPu 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

That is super super super bad.

yankeezfan1 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Only in the US are there retarded lawsuits

boogeybro 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Kindle is a device that allows you to download books onto it or something.

YourPirateGuy 07/31/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

boogeybro said: "Kindle is a device that allows you to download books onto it or something." Yeah.