Recently Amazon has become a fireman. No not one that puts out fires, but one like the firefighters in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Ironically the book is being sold by Amazon whose executives may want to give it a read through. The New York Times reported in mid-July that Amazon had remotely deleted 2 Orwell books from customers Kindle's. The Kindle is Amazon's electronic reader, which is used to view e-books and other media.
Amazon did refund the money to its customers and said that they would not do this again (Amazon said they deleted the books because of copyright issues). However, the big deal is that they have the power to delete the files. This is a scary thought. This article by Brad Stone of the New York Times is a good piece on the subject.
Unfortunately the world isn't this campy anymore:
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