Student Sues Amazon: Kindle Ate Homework

[gorehound]

I happen to own over a thousand books and none of them are digital nor will they ever be.
i have a great collection of around 150-200 vintage 1930 - 1949 pulp magazines and have a gallery here you can see some.
http://www.bigmeathammer.com/gallery.htm
I also own around 600 - 800 vintage paperbacks.
And to top it off I own around 100 or so World War 2 books mostly 1st edition hardcovers.

I will never lose my books and if I do it will mean I have lost everything due to fire and then I have insurance.

I own an IPOD but you know something I HATE DIGITAL !!!
You will never get me to go out and buy digital books or movies or music.
I do own 100's of CD's and still own a nice collection of vinyl.

this lawsuit against amazon is a great idea.not for the money aspect but because when you buy something you don't go and delete it.and i wonder how you folks who are stupid enough to buy one of these will expect to read your library in 50 years or more.
my 1930's era books and pulpls are still readable and that makes them over 70 years old.no file formats in this home !!!!

 

[Guest]

and you are old and antiquated physical copies aren't the future digital "everything" is the future

how old are you like 60? seriously anyway born in the last 20 years knows that

 

[Guest]

Anyone born whenever that stops to think before putting foot in mouth realize that the concept of digital "everything" is fundamentally flawed.

Digital media is a great thing but it won't actually replace physical media as much as coexist with it.

Anyway, regarding EULAs. They are for the most part irrelevant since their terms more often that not violate consumer law, at least over here, and are thus considered null and void as far as legality is concerned.

You can't actually deny a consumer rights to purchased media just because the EULA says so. Consumer law very much trumps the EULA.

Hopefully that will also be the conclusion of the court, or this will end up a very black day for consumers of digital media.

 

[eklipz330]

yah yah good idea, instead of them suing us, let us SUE THEM!

 

[spectrewind]

This is why I store things on drives I have control over. Never leave something you need preserved in the possession of a vendor.

Companies that do this deserve to be crushed. I hope an example is made of them.

 

[apache_lives]

Amazon was probably right within there right removing content as most likely stated by there EULA etc

 

[michaelahess]

I'm guessing what they did was completely within their EULA, otherwise their lawyers wouldn't have let them do it regardless of the publisher's wishes. If they were not allowed to remove it, then Amazon would have been responsible financially to the publisher for any damages. This kid is retarded!

Also, what jack ass doesn't keep backups of any critical homework? I was doing it in the early 90's, nobody has any excuses these days.

 

[deltatux]

maybe that's why I still buy my books on paper?

Even other online stores don't have that issues like for music and videos ... no one can delete'em.

I never liked the idea of the kindle. It's the only technological movement I rather do the old fashion way.

 

[gorehound]

by the way i am 53 years old and have always loved to collect records,books,and movies.

i am a firm believer in digital not being the way of the future.you think it is the future huh !!!1
tell that to my employer as i work in a videostore as the office person.or tell that to all the local stores here in portland, maine who are already losing business to the faceless computer.this is costing local jobs and small businesses that go under cause they can't compete.

and tell that to the folks who lost their copies of 1984 or the folks who lost their DRM music that can't be "authorized".

when your devices no longer read the formats you support now i will still be reading my books and listening to my vinyl and loving it.

and by the way i also buy and sell collectible vinyl and/or rare books.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

I love how faggots like these have found ways to turn the US legal system into a fucking joke.

This is why America (and even the rest of the world) is where it's at.

 

[shqtth]

If amazon has the right to revoke access to a boke at anytime, they should, actually warn they the person will loose access, and allow them time to save their notes.

 

[r0x0r]

The student should sue the education system for failing to prepare him for the real world instead. There's a precedent I'd love to see.

 

[Platypus]

[citation][nom]gorehound[/nom]this is costing local jobs and small businesses that go under cause they can't adapt[/citation]
Fixed.

The student is just another chump with his hand out saying "Gimmee Gimmee Gimmee!" He's writing a paper for high school. It's not like we're talking about a Master's Degree or a cure for cancer. He does not need any "monetary relief."

 

[kamkal]

Lesson here is:

Use notepad/word to take your notes

 

[wayneepalmer]

I suspect the problem here wasn't just that the Kindled 1984 was erased.

Given the furor at schools about plagiarism, I suspect the kid had done a really nice job of using Hyperlinking as a Bibliography function and the deletion totally rendered his report not only non-functional but even unopenable. If the school was using electronic media only for its classes this could be a real problem and the teacher would had no recourse but to give the kid an "incomplete".

Maybe initiating the lawsuit is his extra-credit and getting to court will get him an "A"!!

 

[Startingline13]

Some[citation][nom]GamingDauphin[/nom]The problem is that Amazon were removing content that had been illegally sold to american users... illegally, as in America the seller did not have the legal right to sell the product.Therefore, the purchaser of the ebooks were "buying" essentially "stolen" products, and have no more right to the product than I would if I had bought a stolen car.[/citation]

That is correct. However, shouldn't Amazon be at fault then, because they are actually the ones SELLING and MARKETING these stolen goods?

 

[Guest]

And gorehound dont forget how tractors cost farmhands their jobs, and how the invention of penicillin cost alot of poor grave diggers their jobs.
Lets try to make people do as many menial tasks as possible, and create as much unnecesary labor as possible(some AWESOME guy called adolf hitler did that too -am I sarcasming too hard or are you still with me?- )
for the sake of the economy in the next few years.

And while you buy your clothes, food and other products from mass retailers for low prices , make sure you complain about the part of it that affects you, and rage if you have to pay 5 cents more for a loaf of bread.

Before the evil internet businesses were here there was already wallmart and all the other corporate giants to out compete your precious behind the corner grocery store.

Fuck if only we were 500 years back in time, then we could all work 14 hours a day in the field to have enough food for the winter.

 

[annymmo]

Amazon should have only deleted the book.
Not that boys notes.

Licencing of products itself sucks.
(e.g. the copy of a book, not the story and characters of it.)
If I buy something than I want to have the right to own it!

The education system should avoid digital viewers as the plague under these rights. Normal books are much safer, cheaper and well just books.

 

[annymmo]

Ban Kindle's from classrooms !!

 

[annymmo]

All other digital e-book readers too!!