[governance] Re: Amazon Allegedly Deletes Customer's Kindle; Incident Triggers Discussion About Ebooks, DRM

[Deirdre Williams]

I think I'm not explaining very well.
The fact of the matter is that Amazon does not do business with my Kindle
which has no access to funds, it does business with me.
And I do not like being stalked by a multi-national - or by anyone else for
that matter :-)

On 23 October 2012 14:02, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>wrote:

> I do understand that. What I don't understand is how that comes to be
> Amazon's business? and quite why, apparently in the absence of any stated
> policy, although I could have missed something there I admit, Amazon should
> change its response to me as a business partner - I'm buying they are
> selling - depending on the IP address which I would still contend is none
> of their business.
> Thank you for trying to help :-)
> I suppose this is because I live in a part of the world where one is so
> often constrained by the geography anyway - oh you're from there well you
> can't do that - although slowly that is improving.
>  Deirdre
>
>
> On 23 October 2012 12:51, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Deirdre,
>>
>> At 08:51 23-10-2012, Deirdre Williams wrote:
>>
>>> The single thing that varies is the IP address I am working from, and I
>>> ask again - is that IP address any business of Amazon? Have I somehow
>>> become my IP address? Is it of
>>>
>>
>> The service uses the IP address to determine the geographical location of
>> the device.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -sm
>>
>
>
>
> --
> “The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
> Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
>



-- 
“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William
Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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