Student Sues Amazon: Kindle Ate Homework

[compulsionnra]

I'm usually against reckless lawsuits, but Amazon deserves it. Pulling things that I have already bought is unacceptable, especially without warning. This will hopefully keep other companies from pulling crap like this.

 

[Guest]

"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."

They should, but they don't have to; in this day and age, that normally means they wont.

The kid shouldn't have relied on a third party to look after something so important. If you fail to back things up, it's your own fault when something goes wrong, unexpected or not.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]thogrom[/nom]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[/citation]
any one tell you are a real ass hat ? so the guy ius old and likes his physical media, can't say i blame him , i am not old and i much rather the physical copy of soemthing i want to keep for years as oposed to a digital copy,which wil likely not work good /right with future operating ssytems, and seriously dude , i fear teh day every thing is digital, it wil only make our civilization fall that much harder when it does , and oooh yes western civilization will fall , nothign lst forever

 

[scryer_360]

I hate to say it, but the only way Amazon was going to take our complaints as anything more than "groaning" was going to be a lawsuit. Its sad that companies would do something like what Amazon did in the first place.

I mean if Amazon was selling a book, and then it found out the company providing Amazon the book didn't have the legal rights, would Amazon recall all the books? No, the people who lied to Amazon about the rights would be the target of a corporate lawsuit, and Amazon would run on its merry way. It could've done the same with the Kindle, instead it jacked its customers.

Its sad for me to say this, but to Justin: Sue the Bastards.

 

[scryer_360]

Also: if Amazon pulled the content, they should offer refunds. I'm not seeing here that they did that?

 

[Codesmith]

Someone needs to take a stand for consumer rights, someone need to challenge these EULA in court. A strong legal case could be made that these "licenses" are in fact purchases.

We need people fighting for the rights of a consumer and often a class action lawsuit is the only tool available to fight with.

 

[Guest]

summer student... sure I believe he took copious notes! And the monetary value of these notes are what? $0.00001? The cost of going to summer school again?

This is ridiculous. And this is why lawyers will always have a job and why things will typically cost far more then they should. Read the EULA, and take "notes" elsewhere!

How can a lawyer say Amazon has no rights to "hack" into a Kindle, when the EULA covers this? This sounds more like a nuisance lawsuit that is filed in hopes of Amazon settling rather than trying to fight it.

 

[c0r3f1ght3r]

the [citation][nom]doomsdaydave11[/nom]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.[/citation]
the world is the way it is because of greedy fucks who still OWN everything YOU BUY it makes me wonder wtf do I have a job and buy shit when its legally NEVER MINE in the end.

 

[sunflier]

My dog ate my Kindle

 

[Zingam]

Imagine: somebody pirates a book and sells illegal copies. You don't know about that - it looks legitimate to you and you buy a book. Then one day SWAT team breaks your door, rushes into your home seeks out the book and burns it in the middle of the living room...

Cool that's much better than 1984!!!! Thank you Amazon.com!!!

 

[Zingam]

Future versions of Kindle will include a brain erasing feature!

 

[falconqc]

[citation][nom]r0x0r[/nom]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.[/citation]

Seems to me he is prepared. At 17 he is stirring some serious shit.

Maybe monetary compensation is a little over the top, but the goal of the lawsuit as stated is that they want to prevent further incursions from Amazon into people's kindles.