Recently I wrote a piece about Who owns your digital life? I talked about how if you read the small print on your digital purchases (books, music, movies, etc) then you would see that you never actually owned it, you only purchased a licence to use it.
Wel it seems Amazon decided to prove me right recently when they deleted somebody's account and wiped their Kindle because they were apparently linked to an account that had been abusing the system - see
Amazon account ban reminds us DRM content is only rented | Digital Trends
I find this frankly staggering. Amazon just decided "we don't like you so we are going to delete everything you have purchased from us - thanks for your business". This should be a wake up call for us all. Not least by virtue of the fact that we keep having DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) imposed on us. All DRM does is takes all your rights away and gives them (leaves them?) with the company that 'sold' you the product. I believe that DRM makes content and products Defective by Design. I would urge you to take a look at this web site and learn more about your rights and how they are abused and more importantly, how to do something about it.
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