Well, I was on the fence about buying a kindle or amazon tablet, but this post about a very summary and disturbing experience of a user makes me think twice.
Linn travels a lot and therefore has, or should I say had, a lot of books on her Kindle, purchased from Amazon. Suddenly, her Kindle was wiped and her account was closed. Being convinced that something wrong had happened, she sent an e-mail to Amazon, asking for help. This was the answer:
read the rest at bekkelund.net
I am not against DRM per se, but using it to reach into people’s libraries and erase their books arbitrarily is definitely not a reasonable application of the technology.
(Regarding amazon ads on this site, vestigial though they may be, are for physical items. They can’t take those back from you once they’ve sold them, at least not yet. I don’t think I’ll be linking too many more unless amazon comes through reversing this incident, it is and should be a lethal PR blow)
No Amazon ads? Is this why you instead chose to plague me with incredibly annoying Clicksor ads that cover the entire browser area, and has to be clicksored away? Because that shit is wack, yo.
And of course I don’t use any kind of digital content service where I can pay and pay and pay, and they can take it all away at any moment of their choosing. That shit too, is quite wack.
Same reason I don’t have a credit card, really. A credit card is like handing your wallet to the store and hoping that they’ll not take more than they’re supposed to, and then also risking that someone gets hold of the credit card number. That second one is kind of like not revealing your name to strangers, or they’ll gain demonic power over you. We’re living in a magical world!
I stick with a system where I’m the one in charge of sending the money by logging in to my online bank. Doesn’t work on Amazon though, so for doing all my dirty Amazon business I have to rely on someone else’s credit card. Much like I rely on someone else’s car when there’s a family get-together out of town. I’m like an overgrown child, really. Hopefully I will one day make enough money that I’d consider paying my dues to adulthood.
I’m testing the clicksor ads literally 2 days ago, I myself haven’t seen a single one. I thought the plugin was broken actually.
Incredibly annoying you say? Sounds like effective advertising… muhahaha
(I’ll see about tweaking the settings, but it’d be nice to see a single ad for myself… kinda working blind here)