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

[Deirdre Williams]

This just appeared on the BBC site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20046568
Amazon and Waterstones get together.
Deirdre

On 24 October 2012 09:44, Adam Peake <ajp at glocom.ac.jp> wrote:

> I guess Amazon's using some regional content control.  Long been
> regional control on the sale of video and DVD, and you can't buy MP3
> from Amazon unless you're in the right territory (I've a UK proxy
> server, used to be able to buy MP3s from Amazon UK, but they can now
> detect I'm in Japan and can't buy, can't give the music industry money
> :-))  Why it would do that on books only an IP lawyer with their head
> firmly up their own (self interest) would know.
>
> So I can rant:  I enjoy a radio program called "desert island discs".
> I guess everyone in the UK knows it, been broadcast for 70 years.
> Simple format, each week a well-known (sometimes not so well known)
> person is invited to bring in 8 records they'd take with them if
> marooned alone on a desert island. Through questions about the songs,
> why they are important to the guest, we hear about a life, and 8 songs
> are played. Parts of 8 songs, not the whole, usually a couple of
> minutes.  The whole program's only 45 minutes
>
> So someone reasonably famous is playing 8 songs they like.  They say
> why they like them, why they are important to them. Very rare for
> there to be anything from a current chart.  And the BBC has now made
> most of the episodes available on line.  Hundreds of interviews, each
> plugging a bit of nostalgia. The most recent guest is Mona Siddiqui
> (Martina Navratilova's also there, Goldie Hawn, Vidal Sassoon, Bob
> Geldof, Norman Schwarzkopf, Stephen Hawking... and on and on and on.)
>
> And for rights reason, in the download version they have to cut the
> music to about 15 seconds.  Not even the 30 seconds free listen you
> get on iTunes or Amazon.
>
> A well known person, perhaps a Muslim theologian (Mona Siddiqui) not
> so many have heard of, but there she is, plugging records, reminding
> us how much we like UB40, and for rights reasons we can't hear more
> than a few bars.  And downloading it killing the music industry. Not.
>
> Adam (at the moment only sure about 5 songs out of 8, good thing I'm not
> famous)
>



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