Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber

On 3/23/2024 8:45 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:43:30 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/22/2024 5:14 PM, WolfFan wrote:
>> And to put it where Amazon can’t touch it; they have
>>> been known to reclaim ebooks. see
>>> https://www.pcworld.com/article/519855/amazon_kindle_1984_lawsuit.html
>>>
>>> I don’t trust them.
>>>
>> Ya, that whole incident was just stupid.  And of all the titles to
>> reclaim THAT had to be first?!
> 
> Much as I agree that reasonably-limited copyrights are helpful, what,
> exactly, is a vendor supposed to do when it finds that it has broken
> the law by selling something it has no right to sell? Go to jail? Pay
> ginormous fines [1] for copyright violation?
> 
> I don't know if this is the case I remember, but, in the one I
> remember, the /real/ problem was that the book was an over-the-summer
> reading assignment requiring a book report -- and the notes the kid
> was planning to use for that report vanished as well.
> 
> [1] At the rate of one fine per book sold, they will mount up
> endlessly.

Yes, part of what raised the volume on the screaming was that users' 
notes and annotations had also been erased.

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dirty old man.