Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Frode Hegland <frode () hyperwords net>
Date: July 30, 2009 5:48:21 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: web: Student sues Amazon after Kindle eats his homework




"It seems we have yet another reason to volley complaints in Amazon's  
directions. 17-year old high school Justin Gawronski had apparently  
been taking electronic notes and annotations on his Kindle for a  
summer assignment on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Yeah, you  
can probably guess where this is going -- after the retailer remotely  
pulled the plug on that particular version of the book, Gawronski's  
notes were lost in the ethers, rendered useless. The suit, which is  
seeking class action status, asks that Amazon be legally blocked from  
improperly accessing users' Kindles in the future and punitive damages  
for those affected by the deletion -- and if he asks nice, we're  
pretty sure Jeff would write his teacher a note." (30 July 2009)
     http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/student-sues-amazon-after-kindle-eats-his-homework/





     frode hegland

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