Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologizes, Shrugs

Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by rickmb on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:19PM (#3271002)

Buying DRM-ed content is a contradiction in terms. Period.

It should be made illegal for sellers to pretend this constitutes the purchase of the content itself. Call it a lease, call it a service, but stop scamming consumers.

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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by cageface on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @09:19PM (#3272725)

Last week Apple locked me out of my iTunes account, and I can't even update the apps I already have installed on my iPad.

I'm done with cloud-based content. I'll continue to use dumb storage like Dropbox and S3, and I'm ok with subscription services like Netflix and rdio. But any service that pretends that I "own" content that can be yanked away with the flick of a switch to be restored only after weeks of haggling with an understaffed and indifferent bureaucracy can go fuck itself.

Of course, once again, it's only the people that play by the rules that suffer.

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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by zotz on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @01:58PM (#3271202)

If they called it Digital Permissions/Privileges Management, sales would suffer and we all know that's worse than the winds of Hell.

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Re:Amazon Puts Your $1000 Kindle Library 'On Hold,' Apologiz... by jamesbritt on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @02:21PM (#3271322)

Digital restrictions management

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