Last week we told you about the concerns that were raised when Amazon, after finding out they had accidently been selling illegal copies of George Orwell’s 1984, ended up remotely deleting the book from the Kindles of customers who had purchased the book, raising questions about copyright and privacy in the digital age.
In response to Amazon’s actions, a Seattle-area high school student, Justin D. Gawronski, is filing a class action lawsuit against the online book retailer. Gawronski claims that he had purchased the book for a summer homework project on George Orwell and when Amazon deleted the book, all his work was lost. The lawsuit seeks to bar Amazon from accessing customer’s Kindles beyond the delivery of purchased content and to reimburse those who lost work due to the company’s deletion of the Orwell books.
What do you think?
