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Re:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end pa... by GFischer on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @01:41PM (#4665613)
They used the One-Click patent against their then biggest rival Barnes & Noble

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click

Several organizations have boycotted Amazon for that:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html

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Re:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos calls for governments to end pa... by smokeyj on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @03:29PM (#4666026)
Thats pretty low, but only reinforces the notions that IP is bad for consumers.
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