The fact that he is suing over his lost homework is almost totally irrelevant. It is just a brilliant way to hold Amazon responsible for their actions. Once a book is purchased he owns the rights to that material and he did not initiate or consent to the removal of the book.<p>If you read the PDF draft of the lawsuit it clearly says that Amazon does not tell users in the Terms & Agreements that they have the ability to remotely delete e-books and in fact says that "...Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times..."<p>Amazon should never be allowed to change data on an individual's kindle without their express written consent. Its criminal.
According to the Wall Street Journal article (<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/07/30/lawsuit-amazon-ate-my-homework/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/07/30/lawsuit-amazon-ate-my...</a>) about the suit, he did not lose the notes; he is upset because the notes are no longer linked (or whatever) to the text they refer to. >>Amazon didn’t delete the file containing Gawronski’s notes on the Kindle device. But since the book text "no longer exists, all my notes refer back to nothing," he said. "I can’t really use it for much."<<<p>Also, they are supposedly suing to prevent Amazon from doing this again, which Amazon has already said they will not. This is just a sleazeball lawyer going for his own benefit and a teenager trying to stretchout his 15 minutes of fame.
More information at <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/07/30/lawsuit-amazon-ate-my-homework/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/07/30/lawsuit-amazon-ate-my...</a>
Proof that children should not be able to bring suit until they are of age. Losing your homework is not reason for a lawsuit, if you get a device like the kindle you should learn how to make backups. And if your chosen device for your homework can not make backups you only have yourself to blame, you should use something else.<p>Personal responsibility seems to be in short supply, blame somebody else is so much easier. Electronics can fail, the kindle is no exception. If you made your homework on a piece of paper I'm sure it would not be lost so easily, but then again pieces of paper can blow away, burn, get lost and so on. The kindle - and any other piece of complex tech - is not infallible. At that price point it can't be expected to be infallible. The fact that amazon initiated the failure is a systemic issue with the kindle, nothing to be surprised about. If you choose a medium with all kinds of weird DRM then you can't really blame the vendor.<p>Is it frivolous lawsuit week or did I miss the memo ? First that real estate company over a tweet and now this.<p>Personally I think amazon deserves a boycott for the kindles DRM but you can't really sue them over a 'feature' that has been well advertised. The kindle is broken by design.