QOTD

“This is Amazon choosing its ‘content partners’ over its customers. There is nothing about copyright law that required these deletions–if Amazon didn’t have the rights to sell the e-books in the first place, the infringement happened when the books were sold. Remote deletion doesn’t change that, and it’s not an infringement for the Kindle owner simply to read the book. Can you imagine a brick-and-mortar bookstore chasing you home, entering your house, and pulling a book from your shelf after you paid good money for it? (Nor, for that matter, does Amazon reserve any ‘remote deletion’ right the Kindle ‘terms of service’.)”

— The Electronic Frontier Foundation weighs in on the “1984” Kindle kerfuffle.