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

On 3/24/2024 8:25 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:14:54 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> As it should have -- /that/ was actual damage sustained by the
> customer. Just having to buy a legal copy if you wanted to finish the
> book was merely inconvenient.
> 
> Speaking of Kindle annoyances -- my new Kindles (both old ones stopped
> working on their own with no encouragement [such as being dropped]
> from me) 

If one were paranoid or had ever dealt with a tech company before (but I 
repeat myself) one might suspect deliberate remote bricking....


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dirty old man.