Comment

Comment by Joeri

Reminder: Amazon once secretly remotely wiped 1984 from people’s kindles.

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki...

You don’t actually buy digital books, you rent a restricted right to read for an unspecified duration. I think there should be legislation that sets a minimum standard for the rights people acquire when they “buy” a digital work.

parent Joeri 3 years ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton