Title: Yes, It Matters
Product review: It is rare for me to deliver a one-star review solely on principle, but Amazon has set an incredibly dangerous precedent in developing the functionality to delete "owned" e-books after a purchase has been made.To quote Slate.com and Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain:"Amazon deleted books that were already available in print, but in our paperless future -- when all books exist as files on servers -- courts would have the power to make works vanish completely. Imagine a world in which all copies of once-censored books like Candide, The Call of the Wild, and Ulysses had been permanently destroyed at the time of the censoring and could not be studied or enjoyed after subsequent decision-makers lifted the ban."I'm hoping that future versions of the Kindle (and the iPhone!) don't have this feature.
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