Amazon wipes customer’s Kindle and deletes account with no explanation
Kindle user had her account deleted because it had ties to ‘previous abuses of company policy’, but the online retailer blanked all follow-up enquiries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-customers-kindle-deletes-account
This really underscores my objection to DRM (Digital rights management). If I am going to ‘lease’ something I expect to pay _a lot_ less than if I purchase it and have permanent irrevocable ownership, yet the price for leasing is pretty much on par with that of owning. I am not even particularly interested in trying to reverse engineer the content, I will simply not purchase the lease and vote with my pocketbook. That so much content is protected by DRM and so many people cheerfully pay nearly full-price for part-time use is beyond me, but then again, I see people accepting all sorts of things that go against their best interests because they were told to.
