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31 Jul 2009, 12:46 am
Amazon.com has been hit with a class action lawsuit after the company deleted George Orwell books from customers Kindles. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 3:17 am
The case proved that fact is often stranger than fiction since the books were George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, conjuring up new images of the Orwellian vision of information control. [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 5:18 pm
- Seems Like George Orwell Just Missed the Year - Dallas lawyer Peter Vogel of Gardere Wynne Sewell on his Vogel Internet, Information Technology and e-Discovery Blog [read post]
27 Jul 2009, 3:00 am
Thus, for example, if you own a Kindle and want to sue Amazon for deleting George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from your electronic reading device, the Kindle's End User License Agreement ("EULA") requires that you instead commence arbitration against Amazon in Seattle, Washington. [read post]
26 Jul 2009, 8:48 pm
"Control At A Distance" is a very interesting article over at Balkinization about Amazon.com using the internet to delete copies of George Orwell's books 1984 and Animal Farm from various people's Kindles after learning that the publisher did not want to grant the rights to Kindle. [read post]
26 Jul 2009, 8:11 pm
(By Marie-Louise Mortimer) I can feel Spring approaching in Melbourne. [read post]
26 Jul 2009, 4:51 pm
There have been lots of reports flying around recently about the decision by Amazon to delete copies of two works by George Orwell (ironic, that) from the Kindle devices of folks who thought they had bought those books for once and for all time. [read post]
24 Jul 2009, 7:21 am
.* Matt Garner (Boult Wade Tennant) for this link to an explanation as to why apes ape and don't invent;* Iain Stansfield (Olswang) for drawing the Kats' attention to a curious experiment in de-branding by Starbucks;Right: 'Thank You' Bagpuss, available from Collectables Ltd* Miri Frankel (Beanstalk), for picking up on how George Orwell suddenly became a non-person, or at any rate a non-author, on Kindle (another of the IPKat's old friends, Hector MacQueen,… [read post]
23 Jul 2009, 5:56 am
The issue came up last week when Amazon.com reached into customers’ Kindle e-readers and deleted some e-books written — ironically — by George Orwell. [read post]
22 Jul 2009, 5:50 pm
That became clear last week when Amazon.com Inc. used its wireless technology to reach into customers’ Kindle e-readers and deleted some e-books written by George Orwell. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 8:23 am
And, in the "isn't this the irony of ironies" department, Amazon has removed from Kindles, without the consent of the users, George Orwell's books "1984" and "Animal Farm". [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 6:14 am
“Animal Farm” and “1984″ by George Orwell. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 5:48 am
Well, it did exactly that — Kindle owners who’d obtained ebooks of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm discovered last week that Amazon had simply deleted those books from their Kindles. [read post]
18 Jul 2009, 11:34 am
The deletion yesterday by Amazon of e-books versions of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm is a shocking and depressing example of ... law enforcement? [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 8:35 pm
I'm as puzzled as anybody else at the mad stupidity of Amazon stealthily erasing all the George Orwells off customer's Kindle readers (and, apparently, crediting the customerss' accounts). [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 1:20 pm
The New York Times reports that Amazon.com found out that the publisher of Kindle versions of George Orwell's books 1984 and Animal Farm decided that it didn't want to give the rights to a Kindle version. [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 8:18 am
George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 4:22 am
President, meet my friend George Orwell, inventor of Newspeak, who memorably wrote, "Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.'' New bushwa same as the old bushwa? [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 8:53 am
We are, of course, all familiar with the dark side of the Panopticon - the fictional surveillance state of George Orwell's 1984, or the actual surveillance states in Eastern Europe in the second half of the last century. [read post]
21 Jun 2009, 1:41 pm
DEMOLITION MAN TRAILER MINORITY REPORT George Orwell - 1984 "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. [read post]
