[citation][nom]burnley14[/nom]How is this worth $150k? I have to pay my university $50k a year to take "a good amount of notes." This is screwed up.[/citation]
Its trivial, as is any compensation for any crime. How do you put a figure over a death? a wrongful imprisonment, etc.
It seems more like Amazon settled out of court but perhaps it was a verdict (I can't really tell from the article). At any rate, this is more about Amazon infringing on their customers rights than anything else. Amazon sold something to customers without having the proper agreement(s) in place, in turn, they attempted to correct the issue by taking the books away from customers who already purchased them.
In all fairness, if Amazon made a mistake, it should be Amazon that pays for the consequences, not their customers. Paying one person $150K doesn't make it right but I can see the reasoning behind the decision.